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goosh.org: the unofficial Google shell

Goosh.org is a web application which behaves like a Unix shell. You can unofficially call it “Google Command Line” but it’s not officially supported by Google - it only uses Google as a search engine. Underlying code is probably based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

You can use word “help” or “?” to get all of the available commands:

web ~ search the web

wiki ~ Wikipedia search

video ~ video search

lucky ~ “I’m feeling lucky” search

…

For instance, if you want to search Wikipedia for the term “CHAP”, you would type:

wiki chap

Or, if you want to search the Web for the term “Frame Relay”, you would type:

web frame relay

Nice idea to make something like this - very cool - try it out!!!

DICT protocol

Did you know there is a way to access dictionary through terminal? It is accomplished by using DICT protocol. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT):

“DICT is a dictionary network protocol created by the DICT Development Group. It is described by RFC 2229. Its goal is to surpass the Webster protocol and to allow clients to access more dictionaries during use. Dict servers and clients use TCP port 2628.”

To try it out, open up your terminal and enter this line:

curl dict://dict.org/d:word_for_lookup

In the following example I’ve used word “seldom”: