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Goosh

By Simon Fodden

Those of you who, like me, were born… less recently than others, might enjoy playing with a new interface to Google developed by Stefan Grothkopp that mimics Unix command line functionality, and which takes me back to MS-DOS, Pine, Basic and beyond.

Goosh (Google shell) starts you out with a simple command line:

Put in your search terms (I used “recission”), and you are given back:

There is a help function (type h and return) that lists the various commands this front end will accept. You can search Google’s videos, images, news, maps etc, type m to get more results, type c to clear the screen, and so forth.

It’s worth noting that the results you’ll get are not exactly the same as the results you get from using the regular Google page: I know because in Google “slaw” brings up our blog first, but in Goosh it doesn’t show up until you’ve brushed a whole lot of shredded cabbage out of the way. Still, it’s fun and fast.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).