Search (!g)#

Type !g <query> in channel and Pompone looks it up on the web and posts the top results with short links.

<you> !g best chain lube for road bikes
<Pompone> [motorcyclist.com] **Best Chain Lubes 2026** → https://go.efnetmoto.com/a1b2
<Pompone> [revzilla.com] **Chain Lube 101** → https://go.efnetmoto.com/c3d4

What it actually searches#

!g queries the Brave Search API and hands the results back to IRC. The bot is a pass-through, not the search engine.

The bot does not control Brave’s results. If a result is wrong, outdated, spammy, or just bizarre, that’s what Brave returned — not a bot bug. There’s nothing to “fix” on the bot side.

Result format#

Each result is one line:

[domain] **title** → shorturl

• The domain in brackets shows which site the result is from.
• The title is bolded (that’s the page title Brave returned).
• The → points to a short URL on go.efnetmoto.com that redirects to the real page. If the shortener is down, the bot falls back to the full original URL — you still get a working link.

Limits#

• Up to 2 results per query.
• Query length: 256 characters max. Longer and you’ll get Query too long (max 256 chars).
• Per-user cooldown: 5 seconds. A channel-wide cooldown of 1 second also applies. If you hit it: Rate limited — try again shortly.
• Cache: 1 hour (up to ~1024 queries). A repeat query hits the cache and comes back instantly — and a cache hit does not cost you a rate-limit slot, so popular lookups stay free.

Error messages#