OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19820/Goosh_a_Shell_for_Google Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:18:33 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com I like it http://osnews.com/thread?316861 http://osnews.com/thread?316861 I really like it. If they can make a live gadget for it then I would put it on my default live homepage.

Before anyone says why I use live personalized page and not google's. I like Live's because it has all the gadget I need.

But for search I like google. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CrazyDude1) Comments Reminds me of.. http://osnews.com/thread?316864 http://osnews.com/thread?316864 http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/

Kinda the same thing but with more sites. And as it runs from an actual shell you can script it ;) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments Comment by Morin http://osnews.com/thread?316870 http://osnews.com/thread?316870 My first thoughts were: Why use a separate shell for this? Why not write a set of command-line tools that can be used in an existing shell?

I could imagine two reasons. The first is that simple command names like "google" or "translate" aren't exactly common in today's command line environments. Few people would ever dare bind a command like "translate" to google services because, "well, people may want to use another translation service, and we also want to give it a cooler name". Ironically, in the old days of the command-line, such a kind of simplicity was much more common.

The second reason is that Goosh outputs hypertext (e.g. embedded links), for which typical command line environments like bash (let alone Windows's cmd.exe) are not prepared. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morin) Comments Nice http://osnews.com/thread?316871 http://osnews.com/thread?316871 funny, I like it. True I am not sure of the use it has but anyway. cool toy. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ikshaar) Comments Actually useful http://osnews.com/thread?316874 http://osnews.com/thread?316874 For things like translating small snippets of text or doing a quick search this can be really useful. I just need a way to pull this is up like the quake tilde shell. ;) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments Misleading http://osnews.com/thread?316875 http://osnews.com/thread?316875 I like it, but this is not really a "shell" at all, just some snazzy AJAX using the Google API. Still neat though! Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (byrc) Comments Comment by BiPolar http://osnews.com/thread?316876 http://osnews.com/thread?316876 If you're into this kind of things... you may find http://yubnub.org/ interesting. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BiPolar) Comments RE: Misleading http://osnews.com/thread?316885 http://osnews.com/thread?316885
I like it, but this is not really a "shell" at all, just some snazzy AJAX using the Google API. Still neat though!


Well, what do you think a "shell" is? It's a wrapper around operating system APIs and commands. This is obviously several levels up the stack from that. But, it's still technically a shell. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments SquirrelFish + Firefox? http://osnews.com/thread?316890 http://osnews.com/thread?316890 Is it possible to combine SquirrelFish technology with Firefox' (since 3.0 drastically improved) JavaScript engine? This would boost Firefox' JavaScript performance too. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (usr0) Comments vimperator + gosh? http://osnews.com/thread?316901 http://osnews.com/thread?316901 I'm using vimperator [1] to control firefox.
Like vim itself, having a console like interface reduces the need for mouse navigation and adds complex-commands-at-a-single-phrase. (':t hello world' opens a new search tab with the phrase "hello world").

... Now I wonder if vimperator could be made to interface directly with gosh.org?

- Gilboa
[1] http://vimperator.mozdev.org/Edited 2008-06-04 00:30 UTC Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments Thats a good idea http://osnews.com/thread?316907 http://osnews.com/thread?316907 Just gave it a try and thats a heck of an idea. Who would have thought to put a shell to Google search? Its a really interesting idea. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments Application Mode howto http://osnews.com/thread?316920 http://osnews.com/thread?316920 Create a file on your Windows desktop called "Goosh.hta" with the following contents. It will pop a chromeless Goosh!




Goosh Command Prompt




Edited 2008-06-04 03:22 UTC Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ewright) Comments goosh +_awesome http://osnews.com/thread?316925 http://osnews.com/thread?316925 seems like this would be great (awesome even) for users of the awesome window manager. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stabbyjones) Comments Awesome http://osnews.com/thread?316931 http://osnews.com/thread?316931 This is really cool! It puts the power of searching for pages, images, videos as well as translating and wikipedia searching right at my fingertips!
I'll make this my default start-page! Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jensa) Comments ASCII http://osnews.com/thread?316933 http://osnews.com/thread?316933 A feature for searching images on Google and displaying the ASCII version of them will me at least interesting ;) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Greuceanu) Comments ssh http://osnews.com/thread?316940 http://osnews.com/thread?316940 It could be interesting to have something like that for ssh by typing in the address bar of the browser:

ssh://username@10.0.0.1 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (siska) Comments RE: ssh http://osnews.com/thread?316942 http://osnews.com/thread?316942 Shouldn't be that hard. You can add protocol handlers via the registry. Most likely it will be enough to have PuTTy installed and to add a handler vor ssh://

In firefox you can also do this by hand ... I've got a link here which unfortunatly is in German:
http://flexible.xapient.net/?p=27

I onced did this for tel:// in an enterprise environment to be able to create system wide links which will tell the telephony software to make a call to the link's phone number.

RegardsEdited 2008-06-04 07:46 UTC Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (inetman) Comments RE: Application Mode howto http://osnews.com/thread?316962 http://osnews.com/thread?316962 Cool Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (timefortea) Comments great stuff! http://osnews.com/thread?316970 http://osnews.com/thread?316970 I'll be using this a bunch. I love how simple the results page is, being minimalistic and simple to navigate. If only you could get more than 4 search results this would be my homepage! Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bulio) Comments RE: great stuff! http://osnews.com/thread?316975 http://osnews.com/thread?316975 Although I can't claim to have used this alot I really like it's speed.

Instead of realoading a whole page you quite instantly get results.

Hopefully someone will develop this futher. ;) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments RE: Nice - I'm thinking a desktop applet on my N800 http://osnews.com/thread?316977 http://osnews.com/thread?316977 I'm thinking of a desktop applet for the N8*0 tablet. I'm pretty sure one of the existing applets can be config our outright modified to display this url instead of it's default one.

The hyperlinked output means I can pop open child browsers easily but as mentioned, the best use is instant access to whatever crazy stuff the write in behind the search interface. I may actually learn the translation, conversion and other "search terms" functions beyond searching. ;) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments RE[2]: Application Mode howto http://osnews.com/thread?316978 http://osnews.com/thread?316978 agreed. Posting code in your coment; that's a paddling.

(I rarely hit +/- but that was a one up worthy comment) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments RE: great stuff! http://osnews.com/thread?316988 http://osnews.com/thread?316988 Try typing m (for more) to get more results. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (finman65) Comments RE: Application Mode howto http://osnews.com/thread?316996 http://osnews.com/thread?316996 Adding:

ICON="cmd.exe"

makes it perfect! ;) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments RE: Actually useful http://osnews.com/thread?317137 http://osnews.com/thread?317137 Try these ;)

http://tilda.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://yakuake.kde.org/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments RE: ASCII http://osnews.com/thread?317182 http://osnews.com/thread?317182
A feature for searching images on Google and displaying the ASCII version of them will me at least interesting ;)


I'm thinking forward and may write some stupid ideas... :-)

First, you need an xargs line parameter processor that puts your input into an HTTP request (it should be easy to implement just by lloking what the browser sends to goosh when you enter some query text); then, you get a HTML answer back which you can process by piping it though lynx -dump or ripping the HTML cover off. If pictures are included, download them and convert them into ASCII art, there are libraries that do help with this kind of conversion. Or you output just a hyperlink so it can be postprocessed in other ways.

I'm thinking of a "real" CLI tool that can be embedded in scipts, or used on the console, the same way you use your usual CLI tools - including information redirection and piping. It would have to be able to be used in dialog mode and in batch mode (without interaction).

Just imagine what fun it could be to use google's power without the web layer! :-)

% grep -v root /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f 1 | goosh -img -goodluck -o - | convert_ascii | less Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments