My new love = goosh.
Found via cssdrive.com, goosh is “the unofficial google shell google-interface that behaves similar to a unix-shell” ….basically, it combines Google’s searching super powers with the simplicity of command lines. Take a look:
And the results are displayed exactly like Google’s….. minus clutter.
above is Google (duh)
and goosh (points below)
Sidenote: Dear Mr. Stefan Grothkopp (the creator), I noticed and appreciate the same color linkage since I’m so used to the colors ;). It’s the little things!
Moving on….
More awesomeness is that blogs, images, video, RSS feeds, and wiki are searchable by one key command. Soooooo say I need a map to say… Astor Place, in the East Village of New York, right? I just punch ‘place Astor Place, New York’ and bam!
The map pops up.. nice!
Btw ‘place Astor Place’..? how redundant. ugh @ myself
Another cool thing is localized searches in your language.
I’m Japanese so: Command + “ja” <–Japanese, pulls up Google results from google.jp. Look!
First search = test; Second = ‘nihongo’ or Japanese
So much awesomeness!
AND! By simply typing ‘h’, ‘?’, ‘man’, or ‘help’
TA-DAAAAAAA!
The commands pops up. WOW. How bad ass!
RSS feed searchability is definitely one of my favorites. I also like how I can search within sites with one commend… and bottomline, for an avid 2.0er (like me), goosh is perfect when I feel like google’ing with no distracting extras.
I admit, goosh is more novelty – kind of a way to make me look geekier than I really am…? Since true skeleton surfing would include ‘$’ (dollar signs) and other symbols necessary for engines like these -> http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ or http://links.sourceforge.net/
Hey, at least I keep it real!
In the meantime, I still want to believe I’ve been upgraded from ‘geek’ to ‘nerd’. HA ;)
Update: Read Louis Gray’s on goosh: “Goosh: A Command-Line Google for Geeks-” . It’s clearer than mine. ha!
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Mona, this is outstanding. Love this!
Louis, I love it too! And thank you!!!
:)
I wonder if there is a way to get this on an actual shell, instead of their website.
goosh is cool (who can deny the awesomeness of the command line?), but you should try Ubiquity from Mozilla. Now that’s impressive. . . http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
Hey, Jonathan. I publicly broke it off with Firefox and now a Safari convert. ;) But yes, I tried Ubiquity and liked it – but I’m a fan of obscure sites / services!
Thanks for the comment,
Mona. :)
Dennis: goosh isn’t true to form skeleton surfing – I believe. :)
deja vu??