The Google plugin

Web search

google google <search> [--{filter,language} <value>]

Searches google.com for the given string. As many results as can fit are included. --language accepts a language abbreviation; --filter accepts a filtering level ('active', 'moderate', 'off').

google cache <url>

Returns a link to the cached version of <url> if it is available.

google lucky [--snippet] <search>

Does a google search, but only returns the first result. If option --snippet is given, returns also the page text snippet.

google fight <search string> <search string> [<search string> ...]

Returns the results of each search, in order, from greatest number of results to least.

Others

google phonebook <phone number>

Looks <phone number> up on Google.

google calc <expression>

Uses Google's calculator to calculate the value of <expression>.

google translate <from-language> [to] <to-language> <text>

Returns <text> translated from <from-language> into <to-language>. Beware that translating to or from languages that use multi-byte characters may result in some very odd results.

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