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.
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/doku.php?id=wiki:duckytool
which wraps a command line around a bunch of web services and has python bindings for same.