Re:Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface
by tlrobinson on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @02:44PM
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Neat idea. Here's one way on OS X:
open "http://google.com/search?q="$*"\&btnI="
Or if you want to specify a non-default browser: open -a "Safari.app" "http://google.com/search?q="$*"\&btnI="
Taking a tangential step, computer automation is similar when it purports to be able to help you, but doesn't understand you well enough to do so; like MS's "clippy".
In contrast, Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button is automation that fulfills its promise (though the name emphases that luck is involved). Google can predict so well what I want, that this button is (very often) right. An awesome achievement. I added a simple command-line google lookup, to go directly to the page, and it's freaking me out how well it works: