25 Oct 2009

Goosh is a Cool Command-Line Interface for Google

I am on a minimalist kick these days as I try to unload some of the more complex stuff I use in favor simple tools that are "good enough." A lot of this involves moving to anything that works with plain text since it works well everywhere and it's inherently portable. There's actually an active crowd of minimalist curators out there and, with their help, I am finding all kinds of cool stuff in this genre.

Here's one such gem: Goosh.org - a command line interface for Google. Once you're on the site type h and enter and you'll get a list of commands. Then, for example, if you type n followed by a keyword (like Yankees as I did here) you can quickly turn around a search of news results for a keyword without leaving the page. 

My only nit with Goosh is that it doesn't work on mobile devices. However, the code is open source so maybe someone will remedy that soon.