Goosh: the Google shell
02. Jun 2008 
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Goosh is a command line shell to google. I really like being able to consolidate several types of searches into a simple, bare bones, consistent list style query/result interface. It feels revolutionary to use, sort of 5/7 of the way towards the feeling I had when I discovered MP3 compression… back in the 90s. Much like then, this thing is not that great right now but has immense potential to be incredibly super fantastic.
I’ve just been testing stuff with it so far, like:
> video the shins > go 1
Or:
> place m4m1y2 > go 1
It needs these features:
- I’ve lost the ability to “go” and “open” once. It came back spontaneously.
- Emacs/bash style editing shortcuts are missing (CTRL-A, CTRL-E, CTRL-D, ALT-F, etc)
- An alias framework that maps arguments to URLs. Getopt style arguments would be fantastic