goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell

ohxten writes "Stefan Grothkopp has come up with a pretty neat tool called goosh. It's essentially a browser-oriented, shell-like interface that allows you to quickly search Google (and images and news) and Wikipedia and get information in a text-only format. This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while."

Totally geeky

[Daimanta]

Getting excited from old functionality in a commandline enviroment.

What is this junk?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I tried it, and it is dissapointing from my point of view!

[e-mail]:/web> ls *

    1) Lexus LS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The long wheelbase LS 600h L is equipped with Lexus Hybrid Drive, .... [66] In the U.S., the Driver Monitoring System debuted on the LS 600h L sedan. [52] ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_LS [wikipedia.org]

    2) Quality Precision Innovation... since 1880 - The L.S. Starrett Company
Manufactures more than 5000 variations of precision tools, gages, measuring instruments, saw blades for industrial, professional and consumer markets ...
http://www.starrett.com/ [starrett.com]

    3) Livermore Software Technology Corporation
10th International LS-DYNA Users Conference: June 8, 2008 - June 10, 2008. ... Register Now for the 2008 LS-DYNA Conference on our conference website: ...
http://www.lstc.com/ [lstc.com]

    4) L.S. Frais - Excellence in Slicing and Packing
LS Frais. your slicing partner ! Our company Our services Our products ... 2004 - 2008 LS Frais Contact | Legal | Roadmap | Awex | Sitemap | Jobs ...
http://www.lsfrais.be/ [lsfrais.be]

Next, I'm gonna try operators and regexes - but I don't have much hope.

Whoops.

[Anonymous Coward]

[e-mail]:/web> web penis
Error: Operation timed out (1212449383081).

I broke it.

I'm kind of glad it didn't work...

[gardyloo]

Just tried it. Wanted to read its documentation. Realized too late that 'man goosh' was a really poor choice of phrase, but just got

[e-mail]:/web> help goosh

help: goosh

Error: command "goosh" not found.

Phew!

Re:Whoops.

[rudy_wayne]

it's not broken

[e-mail]:/web> web penis
    1) Human penis size - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human penis size refers to the length and width of human male genitalia. Interest in larger penis sizes has led to an industry devoted to penis enlargement. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_penis_size [wikipedia.org]

    2) Penis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external sexual organ of certain biologically male organisms. The penis is a reproductive organ, technically an ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis [wikipedia.org]

    3) Things You Didn't Know About Your Penis, Interesting Facts That ...
(WebMD) Here are some things you might have wondered about your penis, but were ... Here's how to avoid penile fracture: don't use your penis too roughly. ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/19/health/webmd/main3949777.shtml?source=mostpop_story [cbsnews.com]

    4) YouTube - Is it a penis
ok first of all this is not my video, please to not think it is, i had recently seen it at my friends house and decided to upload it from www.funnyjunk.com!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sQA9ILZSU [youtube.com]

Re:Bug

[Anonymous Coward]

Duh. You forgot Sudo.

Re:Bug

[Anonymous Coward]

why that command would wipe out the entire internet!

Re:Slow and doesn't work on my mobile browser

[owlstead]

That bowing seems to be an empty statement.

Aah, the world is a sane place again :)

[jaxtherat]

[e-mail]:/web> man woman

help: woman

Error: command "woman" not found.

Re:Totally geeky

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha ha.

Click for definition of Goosh [urbandictionary.com]

Future explorer...

[fahrbot-bot]

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a good while.

Um, you need to get out more.

Start small. Leave the basement for a day-trip to the garage or back yard....

Re:Whoops.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahh ... to be 11 years old again.

Ironic...

[cayenne8]

Kind of ironic, that this command line web application, won't work in a commandline browser.

Doesn't work with links [sourceforge.net] .

Re:Totally geeky

[Dpaladin]

I find that Linux users always Bash new shells, to be honest.

Re:Lynx

[Anonymous Coward]

Because "Lynx" doesn't conjure images of a semen-filled condom like "goosh" does.

Re:Ironic...

[Malevolyn]

Thanks. You just ruined Portal for all of us who are too broke to afford hardware that can run it. =(

Re:Whoops.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I know what a goosh is:

[e-mail]:/web> web goosh
    1) Urban Dictionary: goosh
Man the girl has such a small goosh i could barley fit two fingers in! ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=738117&term=goosh

Re:What about vi?

[Nullav]

Don't worry. Google is included with Emacs.

Re:What is this junk?

[pablomme]

Unless you have bound Alt + -> to "Horizontal Maximize" in compiz. Of course, if you happen to briefly forget you had, you may stare at the page for a while wondering "Wow - just how the hell do they do that!".

Not saying this happened to me. It was.. erm.. a.. friend of mine.

Re:What is this junk?

[dominious]

I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of search entries for ls in Google's logs tonight..

Re:Lynx

[kramulous]

elinks is better. It's enhanced

Sure, but does it have electrolytes?

Re:What is this junk?

[ozmanjusri]

"it is dissapointing from my point of view!"

I'm not surprised. Check out the kernel it's running on.

[e-mail]:/web> uname -r
    1) uname
The uname() function shall return a string naming the current system in the character array sysname. Similarly, nodename shall contain the name of this node ...
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/uname.html [opengroup.org]

    2) uname 1

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uname&sektion=1 [freebsd.org]

    3) uname function.
uname is NOT in the ANSII library but is handy for getting system information. It will return handy things like:. System type (name). Host name (Nodename). ...
http://www.space.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/FUNCTIONS/uname.html [unibe.ch]

    4) Unix man pages: uname (2)
UNAME(2) Linux Programmer's Manual UNAME(2) NAME uname - get name and information about current kernel SYNOPSIS #include int uname(struct ...
http://www.rt.com/man/uname.2.html [rt.com]
 

DON'T

[MrKaos]

rm -rf /

Re:What is this junk?

[HSpirit]

or

sudo rm -rf /

from Microsoft IP addresses ;-)

Re:Totally geeky

[wolftone]

...there's a process that is inferior to emacs?

Re:Totally geeky

[navsan]

...and just type $ google what I want to know You'll get the results directly in a browser of your choice.

Wow! And it's even psychic!

Re:DON'T

[Anonymous Coward]

Worse than that:
1) cat /dev/hda | mail -s "[e-mail]"
2) Call Tom: "Hi Tom, I should warn you ... I just sent you an email with the whole Internet."

Re:Ironic...

[geminidomino]

You just contradicted yourself. First you say that the player is promised cake. Well, upon completing the game, I received no cake. The cake is a lie.

But the cake WAS available, but Chelle couldn't eat it? Because they threw her into a fire? So that cake is a lie too.

And the metaphor argument doesn't hold, because the cake exists, YOU JUST CAN'T HAVE ANY! Neener neener neener