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Emily Chang's blog got me onto goosh.org. It's the "unofficial Google shell", and you can Google using unix-like command line syntax. Oh, for the old Amdeck amber monochrome monitor (with 80 columns!)
Get to goosh.org
Try entering lucky then your keywords, you'll get the first search result ("Feeling Lucky?")
Or, here are a few other commands to try:
| command |
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| aliases | parameters | function | | web |
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| (search,s,w) | [keywords] | google web search
| | news |
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| (n) | [keywords] | google news search
| | more |
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| (m) |
| get more results
| | blogs |
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| (blog,b) | [keywords] | google blog search
| | read |
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| (rss,r) | <url> | read feed of url
| | feeds |
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| (feed,f) | [keywords] | google feed search
| | place |
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| (places,map,p) | [address] | google maps search
| | translate |
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| (trans,t) | [lang1] [lang2] <words> | google translation
| | images |
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| (image,i) | [keywords] | google image search
| | video |
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| (videos,v) | [keywords] | google video search
| | clear |
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| (c) |
| clear the screen
| | wiki |
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| (wikipedia) | [keywords] | wikipedia search
| | help |
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| (man,h,?) | [command] | displays help text
| | cd |
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| <command> | change mode
| | site |
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| (in) | <url> <keywords> | search in a specific website
| | open |
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| (o) | <url> | open url in new window
| | go |
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| (g) | <url> | open url
| | lucky |
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| (l) | [keywords] | go directly to first result
| | ls |
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| [command] | lists commands
| | addengine |
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| add goosh to firefox search box
| | load |
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| <extension_url> | load an extension
| | settings |
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| (set) | [name] [value] | edit settings
| | gmail |
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| (mail) | [compose] | read & write mail in gmail *
| | login |
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| login with your google account *
| | logout |
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| log out of goosh *
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Happy Gooshing!
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