goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell 310
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."
Re:Lynx (Score:3, Insightful)
There will always be a command line (Score:3, Insightful)
What about the images? (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually, hmm, that'd be pretty damn cool,
Re:Totally geeky (Score:5, Insightful)
Not particularly useful (Score:5, Insightful)
So no neat things like piping the images from an imagesearch.
Secondly, a mouse is still going to be required when you browse to one of the sites returned in the search, so this interface is only useful while you're actually searching.
It's cool, but really only as a novelty.
Re:Slow and doesn't work on my mobile browser (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Difference? (Score:4, Insightful)
Are these posted by the same people who say that Open Source's strength lies in its diversity?
We should applaud the effort that has gone into this project, even though it may not be equally useful to everyone.
Re:Difference? (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess I'm missing something... (Score:5, Insightful)
I can type in search terms and get the results from Google. And...
Um...
How is this something I couldn't do before? I can certainly do this on my own (real) command line - surfraw has been mentioned, and a perl script and the Google API (or even without it) means "getting a list of links for a search term from google" is not exactly unknown.
It has a cute CLI-like interface, but not really. "This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell." Um, no, not really. It's a cute interface, but not a real shell by any stretch...
So what am I missing?
Call me when it supports regular expressions (Score:5, Insightful)
%> search "lindsay lohan\'s (boobs|tits|chest|underwear|bank account.*[0-9]+)"
Now if it was a real shell binary that you could run IN UNIX then I might be slightly impressed. I could make this "shell" in 10 lines of CSS!
Great... (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh come on guys! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:There will always be a command line (Score:5, Insightful)
Very interesting (Score:2, Insightful)
I suspect the majority of casual Google users really couldn't care less, though.
Re:Totally geeky (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Totally geeky (Score:1, Insightful)
I never realized how ugly and annoying Google's simple text ads were until I saw this. NexTag and eBay adds for (insert any frickin' query term) farewell.