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Shell game
Posted on June 2nd, 2008
Goosh.org is a text-only interface to Google and Wikipedia that will make your inner unix geek giggle inappropriately. It looks like a unix shell, but it isn’t (which, as Zouden at slashdot points out, means that you can’t do unix-y, pipe-y things with the results you get back). Alas, it doesn’t work on my Blackberry’s ultracrappy Web browser. On the other hand, Google’s mobile client works pretty well. Categories: misc Previous: « Plurk is not twitter || Next: [berkman] Berkman lunch: Walter Bender, Sugar Labs » 2 Responses to “Shell game”Leave a Reply |
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What happened? They missed having a DOS interface? Text, ok, but this is silly – the advantage of the www was the leap over the text-only interface.
if you really want a shell interface, Jose Nazario put together “duckylib”
http://monkey.org/~jose/wiki/d.....:duckytool
which wraps a command line around a bunch of web services and has python bindings for same.