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Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by user24 »

biot wrote: post #50
user24 wrote: post #33

This is something that's been going on for a while - Google killing small web apps; Convertors, calculators, movie listings, ip finders, weather stats, stocks. It's not all low-hanging fruit. I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing this, nor that it's intentional. Their goal is to be the best search engine which means connecting searchers with answers as quickly as they can. But even so, it sucks for the web apps who…

It sucks, but if the small app someone wrote can be duplicated in 10 seconds of coding then its days were already numbered.

This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same with weather. Getting a good weather app is not 10 seconds of coding. Some, like ip address, are simple things, but even so whatismyip.com built a huge range of products around that one simple service.

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by TeHCrAzY »

flexd wrote: post #48
hieronymusN wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To force the IPv6 IP on Google - http://ipv6.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip

It's telling me regardless, It's not telling me the IPv4 address.

Internode in Australia defaults to IPV6 for Google. Your isp may do the same?

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by catch23 »

user24 wrote: post #51
biot wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sucks, but if the small app someone wrote can be duplicated in 10 seconds of coding then its days were already numbered.

This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same with weather. Getting a good weather app is not 10 seconds of coding. Some, like ip address, are simple things, but even so whatismyip.com built a huge range of products around that one simple service.

I always hated how weather sites could not just detect my approximate location based off of ip (eg weather.com) and required me to enter in my zip code, google fixed that.

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by tomkarlo »

This seems like a case of some things being features, not applications. Entire web sites build just to report your IP back were probably going to be replaced by one thing or another, eventually.

Both Google and Apple (and most other companies) are smart enough to see that if a simple feature is heavily used and the experience of using it can be improved for their users, they may want to make it a "native" part of their products. Let's face it, this is a better experience for that search, and you can still go to the indie sites if what you need isn't covered by it.

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