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Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by alangpierce » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:28 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #45

You can type nonsense words into this --- words for which Google will say no page in its entire corpus has a match --- and get color palettes back. What's it actually doing?

Looks like Google image search always has a fallback for a nonsense search query, and the images between Google and Picular exactly match (if you hover over the bottom-right of any color card, it shows the source image):

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj

https://picular.co/sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj

If you put it in quotes, though, Google gives no results and Picular crashes (500 internal server error from an XHR):

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q="sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj...

https://picular.co/"sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj"

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by avighnay » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:43 AM UTC

A very good example how engaging and useful a simple idea can be! Now the source images are also shown in the results!

I do not think it uses any AI/ML, the beauty is in the simplicity of the solution. Awesome!

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by lifthrasiir » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:32 AM UTC

fbelzile wrote: post #57

Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride It might be ordering the results by hue.

Given there is no original picture overlay in that result, it actually seems to be hardcoded.

Re: Google, but for colors

#84

Post by usmannk » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 7:40 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #79

itsarnavb wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's probably using Google custom search. I think that's the only way you can actually get Google search results as an API. Perhaps custom search displays differing results?

You can scrape google.com with a lot of awkward ban evading. The fact that it works for non existing search results shows that it's ML

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874276

Re: Google, but for colors

#85

Post by asafira » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 7:41 AM UTC

It seems to me like when I type in company names, I don't get the exact colors they use in their branding...

Re: Google, but for colors

#86

Post by tom4000 » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 8:07 AM UTC

Doesn't work out of the box with tracking protection in browsers enabled. So I don't see any color and I guess I don't have to.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by hesselbom » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 8:36 AM UTC

alangpierce wrote: post #81

tptacek wrote: post #45

You can type nonsense words into this --- words for which Google will say no page in its entire corpus has a match --- and get color palettes back. What's it actually doing?

Looks like Google image search always has a fallback for a nonsense search query, and the images between Google and Picular exactly match (if you hover over the bottom-right of any color card, it shows the source image): https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj https://picular.co/sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj If you put it in quotes, though, Google gives no results and Picular crashes (500 internal server err…

Fixed! There's now a color palette for "sdlkfjsldkfjsldfkj" ;)

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by Ftuuky » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 8:41 AM UTC

izzydata wrote: post #21

Is the site getting overloaded with traffic? Nothing returns any results. Edit: Left a search running for 10 minutes and got some colors.

12 hours later and still doesn't work for me

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by zouhair » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 8:53 AM UTC

I don't know why but this reminded of Guess-The-Google[0] where you get a series of images and you have to guess the search word that generate them.

Sadly, I couldn't find any playable version of it.

[0]: https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/guess-the-google

Re: Google, but for colors

#90

Post by beardyw » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:06 AM UTC

I want to take all the main colours in my house and get a word back! Someone work on it now.