Start a Google search from within a PowerShell Console

Here is what I like to call a little fun function, this function allows you to easily search www.google.com for anything your heart desires. By default it will search for "The Overnight Admin" unless you specify with the -Search parameter like I did as an example on line 34.

The reason that just typing Start-Google at will search for "The Overnight Admin" is because within the param block I've set the $Search parameter to equal the "The Overnight Admin", but if you type Start-Google -Search "powershell" that will overwrite the $Search parameter and open the Google search page for powershell.

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param ([Parameter(Mandatory=$false,                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,                   Position=0)]                   $Search = "The Overnight Admin" )

Enjoy!

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Function Start-Google { <# .Synopsis Searches the Googes .DESCRIPTION Lets you quickly start a search Google from within Powershell .EXAMPLE Start-Google -search PowerShell #>                       [CmdletBinding()]               Param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,                       ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,                       Position=0)]                       $Search = "The Overnight Admin",                       [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,                       ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,                       Position=0)]                       $google = "https://www.google.com/search?q="               )          Begin {                     $ie = new-object -com internetexplorer.application          }     Process {                 $Search | ForEach-Object { $google = $google + "$_+"}     }  End      {          $url = $google.Substring(0,$google.Length-1)          $ie.navigate( $url )          $ie.visible = $true  } } Start-Google -Search "Enter Hilarious Search Here"