Google, but for colors

Post by bryanrasmussen » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 1:16 PM 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?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 1:19 PM UTC

spazzpp2 wrote: post #102

It cannot do "lego" But maybe it's just hug of death..

Post by nickelcitymario » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

hesselbom wrote: post #87

alangpierce wrote: post #81

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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" ;)

Post by hesselbom » Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 8:57 AM UTC

nickelcitymario wrote: post #105

hesselbom wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What did you change? My guess is you're still doing a Google Image search, but when it returns no results, you return something random and cache this query for consistency. Is that about right?.