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+import random
+
+from util import hook, http
+
+
+def api_get(kind, query):
+    url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/%s?' \
+          'v=1.0&safe=off'
+    return http.get_json(url % kind, q=query)
+
+
+@hook.command
+def gis(inp):
+    '''.gis <term> -- returns first google image result (safesearch off)'''
+
+    parsed = api_get('images', inp)
+    if not 200 <= parsed['responseStatus'] < 300:
+        raise IOError('error searching for images: %d: %s' % (
+                parsed['responseStatus'], ''))
+    if not parsed['responseData']['results']:
+        return 'no images found'
+    return random.choice(parsed['responseData']['results'][:10]) \
+            ['unescapedUrl']  # squares is dumb
+
+
+@hook.command('g')
+@hook.command
+def google(inp):
+    '''.g/.google <query> -- returns first google search result'''
+
+    parsed = api_get('web', inp)
+    if not 200 <= parsed['responseStatus'] < 300:
+        raise IOError('error searching for pages: %d: %s' % (
+                parsed['responseStatus'], ''))
+    if not parsed['responseData']['results']:
+        return 'no results found'
+
+    result = parsed['responseData']['results'][0]
+
+    title = http.unescape(result['titleNoFormatting'])
+    content = http.unescape(result['content'])
+
+    if len(content) == 0:
+        content = "No description available."
+    else:
+        content = http.html.fromstring(content).text_content()
+
+    out = '%s :: %s :: %s' % (title, content, result['unescapedUrl'])
+
+    out = ' '.join(out.split())
+
+    if len(out) > 300:
+        out = out[:out.rfind(' ')] + '..."'
+
+    return out