True. It's not CLI, but a pleasant modern interpretation. It's the feeling,
the artistic adaptation of the CLI metaphor that I find exciting.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:14 AM, duke daniel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I must say it has a pretty CLI-like interface, but not quite! "This
> google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell." is '!=True' since its not
> a real shell by far...
> And further, a mouse is still going to be required when you browse to one
> of the sites returned in the search, so this interface is only useful while
> you're actually searching.
>
> It's a pretty cool concept, but really only a mirage of the big idea.
>
> However Surfraw <http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/> sudo apt-get install
> surfraw which was actually composed by Julian  
> Assange<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange>
> gives the real deal of "fast unix command line interface to a variety of
> popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power".
>
> Cheers!
>
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