Honestly what is the point of this? Can you seriously sift through a hundred thousand web page results on a ls style listing?

And how do you make sure you have the right video or the image or the music file that you searched for?

Is google losing it?

nikrox

Now, if only it came in a dark color scheme. I'm still making this my new home page.

qbix

@nikrox:Is google losing it?
It's not affiliated with Google in any way. It's an experiment more or less, somewhat similar to Yubnub. I kinda like it.

TonyAgudo

I like this, I can search for whimsical stuff at work and look like I'm working, if only I could use it to read blogs.

xenobyte72

I just don't get it. At first I was psyched when I read that it's 'text-only' but it's not. It opens webpages normally. I was hoping for a lynx-like HTML -> text view.

This is like yubnub except, instead of having > 20,000 commands, it has about a dozen.

I'm not a fan. All interested should check out yubnub ... a *social* command line for the web, so you can add your own commands etc etc.

Also, for all yubnub fans who aren't using rubnub yet, you should check it: [rubnub.org]

remi

@xenobyte72: Just use lynx for that....

andhapp

@xenobyte72: You can, kind of. To read LH's type:
b lifehacker
r 1
What would be really cool is if this was integrated with things like grep, awk, etc.

dave1010

It's useful if you are stuck on dial up while you are waiting for your cable company. I agree, you could use lynx if you want to download it via the dial up connection.

gareth.pn

It's more for fun than functional. I don't like the static prompt... it seems like it could change, but then it doesn't

coonj

Ha! You know, I kinda like it. "feeds washingtonpost" then to open the first link, you just type "open 1". It's easier on the eyes and it looks like you're working.

OX4

I agree with dave1010.

If this you could pipe the results to grep, then this would be really useful.

ex:

web itunes |grep applescript

richvalsky

I've always said, if there's one thing that Google search is missing, it's to be more difficult and cumbersome. Finally, a solution!

Honestly, I don't see why someone would prefer to use this, other than to show everybody how 133+ they are.

illflux

@qbix: ditto its kinda blinding in the morning looking at this site on my behemoth LCD screen so early in the morning :) i wonder if it's has any userscripts to change it to a darker color scheme.....anybody know?

That_Eagle_Scout!

It is definitely not more useful than plain google.

But it is a good change from...well, PLAIN google.

nicknackpaddyHack

Personally, I feel that this is way more efficient than google's homepage. (Never thought that would be possible) I love that I can do everything through the keyboard.

Great find!

elightbo

I'm a fan of anything that looks, acts or feels like a shell. Fun, but this is far from useful.

Either way, nice find.

codykniffen

Wow this is so cool! I really love this.

From the comments above, I can see many disparaging remarks. Well, it's good that in this world we have choices and options.

People love command lines, not because it's fast and efficient (for those who are used to it), but also because it brings back a lot of nostalgia. Everyone who used computers since the 80s are command liners, and are used to that way of working.

For those who don't like command lines, they can use GUI/mouse. Choices.

ICEBreaker

This is insanely cool. I think I have a new homepage.

four12

This is great, I think its useful quick searches. I love being able to do anything from the keyboard.

AceSev3n

When I saw the article I first thought that someone had created a command line interface for google that you could download and use in your shell.

Now THAT would come in handy.

jglessner

@qbix, @superbryant: I've just made a dark theme. Any suggestions/requests are more than welcome: [jamesburgess.co.uk]

I'll post it up on UserStyles.org when it'll actually let me register.

JamesF1

This is actually pretty cool. Would be great if it could also work to fetch feeds, instead of simply redirecting you to them

Yab

I've played a bit with it, installed JamesF1's theme, edited a littlebit the somewhat ugly colors, and I realized that if you bookmark :

[goosh.org]

As a sidebar bookmark, you get quite a nice search sidebar...

Yab

Hmm.... the site doesn't work on my computer. It always gives a "connection timed out" error.

kli6891

@Yab: I guess colours are simply a matter of preference. Personally, I use those terminal colours (albeit, usually with some degree of transparency) on any and every system I can lay my hands on.

I'll try and add some more variations in the coming days :)

JamesF1

@Yab: I fixed this shortly after the initial upload (you must have grabbed the download before I updated). :)

JamesF1

@JamesF1: One edit I made to your theme that you should incorporate is change the text color of the inputb class to 666666

Or else, what you input will disapear from the command line (in the history)

Yab

@JamesF1: One edit I made to your theme that you should incorporate is

.inputb{
color: #666666 !important;
}

Or else, what you input will disapear from the command line (in the history)

Yab

@JamesF1: nice thanks, much better, I usually keep my office dark till I'm fully awake and that site killed my eyes :)

superbryant

@joelena:

Silly me, it's better with just one bookmark:

hxxp://goosh.org/?q=%s

so that you can type the alias of the command you want + your search term.

joelena

@Yab: Thanks for showing me that you can make keyword bookmarks for any of goosh's functions:

search: hxxp://goosh.org/?q=s%20%s
images: hxxp://goosh.org/?q=i%20%s
maps: hxxp://goosh.org/?q=p%20%s

etc.

joelena

My first thought was that it was interesting, but not useful. Then I tried some different searches, and I love it! Image searches and map searches are especially cool. It's too bad the "read" command result is limited to 4 items (and "more" does nothing), but at least it's a quick way to check on the 4 most recent recent posts of your favorite rss feed.

@jglessner: Someone made one for Linux [goose-search.sourceforge.net] and abandoned it 5 years ago.

joelena

Woo, here's a snippet for a dark theme (it works :/ )

@namespace url([www.w3.org]);

@-moz-document domain("goosh.org") {
body,input {
background-color: #000;
color: #bbb;
}
#input, #prompt, #output, #less, .info, .less, {
color: #aaa;
}
}

nyxtom

You can type:

web itunes | grep applescript

...but when you do, the "|" symbol doesn't pipe, it means "OR" to Google. That example is kind of bad, because it would be simpler just to type:

web itunes applescript

Anyway, if you really wanted to integrate goosh into a Unix-like shell, goosh would need a completely different interface. Instead of providing its own shell, it should provide a CLI (command line interface), to be used in your shell:

goosh -web 'itunes' -results 100 | grep applescript | wc

(Note that I added my own fantasy parameter, a way to get more than four results back at a time. Also, such a goosh CLI should return one result per line, rather than one result taking several lines.)

Overall, goosh is novel and clever, but the basic search doesn't really add value for me. I kind of like the "translate" command. Once you guess the two-letter abbreviations for each language, you can type:

translate en es Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

The result: "El tiempo vuela como una flecha, pero las moscas de la fruta como un plátano."

(..."como" un platano? Oh well, not goosh's fault.) :-)

morenus

this is the coolest thing ever. i hope it never goes away.

garbanzo-bean

@nikrox:

First, this is not a product by Google...it has nothing to do with them. Secondly, it gives the exacts same results as the same Google search. If what you're looking for doesn't pop up straight away type m, hit enter. Easy. It's not for everyone. I find I can now do everything from the keyboard in a single window. If I do a search and my result is the 5th one, I just type 5 hit enter and the page loads. I like.

Bosambo

@joelena: Maybe that's just me being quite ignorant about web protocols, but I only get some forbidden mesages

Yab

Use this url to make a keyword search bookmarklet for Goosh: [goosh.org]

@Yab: I wanted the text of the url to be visible, and I've seen others do it that way without offering an explanation, but I guess I should have mentioned that you should change "hxxp" to "http". I'd like a better way to avoid the link transformations in these comments - sometimes you'd rather show/see the text.

joelena

@joelena: I knew about that, but even with http, I get the same Forbidden error.

And anyway, I don't know if it's firefox3 or lifehacker, but the hxxp gets automatically transformed to http when I click the link

Yab

@Yab: OK, I get it - you can't just click the link. Either drag it to your bookmarks toolbar or otherwise create a new bookmark and set that as the url. Right-click on your new bookmark and give it a keyword (mine's gsh). Now you can type, "gsh s lifehacks" in your location bar to search google for "lifehacks", or "gsh i chimpanzee" to search for pictures of chimps.

See [lifehacker.com] for more on keyword bookmarks.

joelena

It maybe be more useful when they put more work into it. I can see it being used for a low speed mobile/dial up connection.

ariswadkar

This site is great!!! Highly recommend as a "cool" way to search.

wkudelt

Put Goosh on Desktop
[macroselfian.ning.com]

jebberwocky

@Bosambo: Oh well, to each his own I guess :) I quiet like the existing stuff and using mouse is not a pain really.

@Tony: Yes I kinda figured it out later on. Some of these experiments do turn out interesting. Guess we would just have to watch and see.

nikrox