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"Wikipedia babel fish" is quite a lot to type.  You can save some wear and tear on your fingers by letting Ubiquity's suggestion list do the work for you.  As you saw in the last section, bringing up Ubiquity and typing only "w" presents you with suggestions of all the commands that start with that letter: namely, Wikipedia and Weather.

When you add the letter "i", the suggestion list narrows down to just the one command that starts with "wi"—"Wikipedia".  At this point, you can hit the space bar and type the rest of your sentence, and Ubiquity will know that the verb you want to use is "wikipedia".  So issuing "wi babel fish" is the exact same thing as issuing "wikipedia babel fish".

Let's try another example.  Suppose you want to know what the weather is like in Chicago.  Try issuing "w chicago".

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You'll see that the top suggestion is "wikipedia chicago".  If you hit the Return key now, this is the command that will be executed.  But that's not what we want right now, so hit the <b>down arrow key</b> instead, to highlight the second suggestion: "weather chicago"

You can now see a preview of the weather forecast for Chicago.  Hit return to go to the full weather report page on Wunderground.com.  

Of course, you could have just issued "we chicago", or even "we 60601" (that's a Chicago zip code) to get the same results.