There are two camps when it comes to modern computer users. Some prefer to interact with their machines with a graphical user interface, while there are others who still prefer the more old school way of interaction with computers, using a command line interface.

GUI (Graphical User Interface) and CLI (Command Line Interface) both have their pro and cons. GUI makes the learning curve for users easier but a GUI based operation might take up computing resources. CLI on the other hand consume less resources but has a steeper learning curve than a GUI.

On the web however, there is no such thing as CLI, or is there? Google has always had a certain CLI-esque in its home search page. One search box, although there are two buttons ‘search’ and ‘I am feeling lucky’, most of the time you just hit return(enter) when finish typing your search query, very CLI-ish.

With Goosh, Stefan Grothkopp took a few steps further and create what looks like a Unix-like shell interface for Google. Goosh, the unofficial Google Shell, is a command line interface for the many feature Google offers. Web search, images search, blogs search, news and even translate.

Though I doubt that this will be much useful to me or others, but I’ve to say this is really cool.