In the beginning there was the command line. You told the computer what to do by typing a command and it did it, it was that simple. But soon enough, people got lazy. They decided they did not want to remember the command names and they said the command switches are confusing. Then came the age of GUI. And people started ridiculing the command line. The command line managed to survive on Unix and its descendants. But even these systems are moving away from it these days.
OK, enough hoopla. But the point is, command line is not the primary UI to a computer these days (at least for most of the people). Surely enough though, there still exists a band of command line freaks who take a particular pleasure in writing long, complex commands with multiple redirections and pipes and what not. What I am about to talk about is for these hardcore CLI freaks (Disclaimer: I am a moderate command line freak). It is this site goosh.org. It's an interface to Google. OK, you will say, there are many others, like blackle. But this one is special, being a command line interface. Go to the site and you are presented with a command prompt. 'ls' will show you available commands. And you search on Google by typing commands at the prompt, e.g to search this blog on Google, type 'blogs jitr4me'. It returns the top 4 results. To jump to say, result 3, type 'go 3'. 'more' to see more results. The default search mode is 'web', there are others like 'news', 'feeds' and 'videos'. You can add goosh to your list of search engines with 'addengine'.
Pretty cool, isn't it?
OK, enough hoopla. But the point is, command line is not the primary UI to a computer these days (at least for most of the people). Surely enough though, there still exists a band of command line freaks who take a particular pleasure in writing long, complex commands with multiple redirections and pipes and what not. What I am about to talk about is for these hardcore CLI freaks (Disclaimer: I am a moderate command line freak). It is this site goosh.org. It's an interface to Google. OK, you will say, there are many others, like blackle. But this one is special, being a command line interface. Go to the site and you are presented with a command prompt. 'ls' will show you available commands. And you search on Google by typing commands at the prompt, e.g to search this blog on Google, type 'blogs jitr4me'. It returns the top 4 results. To jump to say, result 3, type 'go 3'. 'more' to see more results. The default search mode is 'web', there are others like 'news', 'feeds' and 'videos'. You can add goosh to your list of search engines with 'addengine'.
Pretty cool, isn't it?
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