Comment by Spivak
6 years ago
Serious question, why search Google in your terminal with Lynx as opposed to `googler`? The actual result pages can still open in Lynx but the experience of navigating the results is very nice.
6 years ago
Serious question, why search Google in your terminal with Lynx as opposed to `googler`? The actual result pages can still open in Lynx but the experience of navigating the results is very nice.
Not pretending to be able to answer for OP, but one answer would be that it's because lynx is a browser, and Google is a web site. Traditionally you read web sites with browsers, rather than requiring special tools for every particular site.
Author of the post is blind so I'd imagine the usage of Lynx is for screen reading/accessibility reasons.
Spivak is asking why Mario isn't using https://github.com/jarun/googler .
If Mario is able to use Lynx, the expectation is that Mario can probably also use googler.
I would imagine that most are not aware of googler &/or do not want to use one tool to search and another tool to browse
There's a patch over v3.9 that works with the new layout: https://github.com/jarun/googler/issues/306
Hopefully we'll have a PR merged soon.