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Google Shell

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Type of site
  
Search Engine

Created by
  
Stefan Grothkopp

Alexa rank
  
1,135,187 (April 2014)

Available in
  
multilingual

Website
  
goosh.org

Commercial
  
no

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.

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Commands

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.

Customization

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 account, their settings are saved remotely.

References

Google Shell Wikipedia