MyGoogle

MyGoogle is a simple Perl-written program to search on Google. It outputs the results on the command line. The user can set the desidered number of results and the language.

MyGoogle is very flexible and it can be used within shell-scripts because it is able to receive input by the STDIN.

Its usage is very simple:

Usage:

./mygoogle -n[n. results (1 - 99)] -l[language (it, en, de, fr, etc.)] query

-n, -l and -d are optionals and they can be in any order: by default the program uses -n5 and searches in all the web

Options:
-n Numbers of results printed.
-l Language: you can enter a particular language by typing its code (en for English, it for Italian, fr for French, etc.).
-i Tell the program that the input is from the Standard Input (STDIN). This option is useful in concatenating commands (for example: cat word.txt | ././mygoogle -i).
-d Define mode: the program searches for a definition of the word passed by argument.

Example:

./mygoogle -n50 -lit linux
prints the first 50 results in Italian language
./mygoogle -d ostracismo
prints the definition of the word 'ostracismo'

Here you can see some screenshots of MyGoogle in action:

MyGoogle invoked without arguments

A simple search with MyGoogle

A search with MyGoogle using the STDIN

MyGoogle in the define mode

MyGoogle in the define mode with some options

MyGoogle's current version number: 0.5

MyGoogle is a Sourceforge project.

You can download it here.

MyGoogle was coded by Michele Spagnuolo (Mikispag).

You can contact the author at this email address (please remove the *DEL*).

• Problems with encoding (UTF-8) and with the new Google layout

  Fixed with the version 0.3

• When using the -i option (to accept input from the STDIN) you can't set other options. (this bug will be fixed in a few weeks).

  Fixed with the version 0.2

If you like this simple program and it was useful for you, please consider making a little donation.

It helps to let this and other projects grow.

If you can't afford making a donation, no problem.

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Thank you very much.