Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche. Real Programmers Don’t Write Pascal. Real Computer Users don’t use WIMP interfaces (that’s Windows, Mouse, Pointers for the uninitiated). So, a command-line interface to Google is a must! Goosh is here! A Google shell with tab completion and history.
I wish it gave more options, though — to set preferences like how many items returned per query, and the ability to mix -l (lucky) with i (image). I tried a sudo gedit, but it didn’t work. Absence of a calculator, heavy use of AJAX, and a few more things are missing.
Overall: intelligent users use Telnet for the same. But the command-line interface to Google is a must, and it was made by Stefan Grothkopp with Google Code. It’s worth a visit!