"In the beginning...
...was the command line!"
Now, there is Goosh!
The unofficial google shell.
All the power of google with the cuddly familiarity of the csh interface.
Sweet.
Oh, yeah, and it works.
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You could say that.
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Hey, this is cool. The search engine looks cleaner. Hahaha!