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Type of site | Search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Created by | Stefan Grothkopp [1] |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | no |
| Registration | optional |
| Launched | 2008 |
| Current status | active |
Google Shell, or goosh, is an open-source browser based Unix-like shell used as a front end for Google Search. Written in AJAX the results are shown directly on the page. Google Shell is open source under the Artistic License/GPL. The code is currently hosted on Google Code.
Users are able to use most of the features of Google through specific commands and keywords. Functions that are marked with a * are currently experimental, and should be used with caution. While most of the command results are displayed as text, a few will display a portion of a website for you to interact with.
| Command | Aliases | Parameters | Function |
|---|---|---|---|
| web | search,s,w | keywords | google web search |
| news | n | keywords | google news search |
| more | m | get more results | |
| blogs | blog,b | keywords | google blog search |
| read | rss,r | url | read feed of url |
| feeds | feed,f | keywords | google feed search |
| place | places,map,p | address | google maps search |
| images | image,i | keywords | google image search |
| video | videos,v | keywords | google video search |
| clear | c | clear the screen | |
| wiki | Wikipedia | keywords | Wikipedia search |
| help | man,h,? | command | displays help text |
| cd | command | change mode | |
| site | in | url keywords | search in a specific website |
| open | o | url | open url in new window |
| go | g | url | open url |
| lucky | l | keywords | go directly to first result |
| ls | command | lists commands | |
| addengine | add goosh to firefox search box | ||
| load | url | load an extension | |
| calculate | calc | expression | evaluate a mathematical expression |
| settings | set | name value | edit settings |
| gmail | compose | read & write mail in gmail * | |
| login | login with your google account * | ||
| logout | log out of goosh * |
The default amount of results when searching is only 4, but this, along with other settings, can be changed. When a user is logged into their Google Account, their settings are saved remotely.
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