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

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Post by flexd » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:16 AM UTC

hboon wrote: post #10

lacker wrote: post #7

Great, this saves me that agonizing click on whatismyip.com.

http://jsonip.com/ is good too, but http://whatismyip.org is even better because you can just select all and copy right away.

jsonip and whatismyip tells me the the IPv4 address though. Google is giving me my IPv6 address!

Would be cool to get both somehow.

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

#42

Post by tagawa » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:17 AM UTC

darkstar999 wrote: post #9

Duck Duck Go does this. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip

DDG in general seems to do a much better job of second-guessing what I'm looking for. Amazing how good it's become and that Google is (in my experience at least) playing catch-up.

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

#43

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:21 AM UTC

lacker wrote: post #7

Great, this saves me that agonizing click on whatismyip.com.

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

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:41 AM UTC

treelovinhippie wrote: post #8

And thus one line of code kills a dozen websites.

If there's already a dozen, they can probably handle the competition.

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

#45

Post by hieronymusN » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:42 AM UTC

flexd wrote: post #41

hboon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://jsonip.com/ is good too, but http://whatismyip.org is even better because you can just select all and copy right away.

jsonip and whatismyip tells me the the IPv4 address though. Google is giving me my IPv6 address! Would be cool to get both somehow.

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

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

#46

Post by chanux » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:46 AM UTC

I recently noticed that searching for dictionary words, using the old define:something trick or queries like "ubuntu release day", "evanscence genre" returns related information or 'best guess'. Nifty.

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

#47

Post by hieronymusN » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:47 AM UTC

27182818284 wrote: post #2

For months: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+my+ip

Wow, like the IPv6 anf IPv4 breakdown along with ISP information. Wolfram would win, but as usual you can't scrape it with the SED tricks of earlier posts... or can you?

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

#48

Post by flexd » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:57 AM UTC

hieronymusN wrote: post #45

flexd wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jsonip and whatismyip tells me the the IPv4 address though. Google is giving me my IPv6 address! Would be cool to get both somehow.

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.

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

#49

Post by keeperofdakeys » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 11:05 AM UTC

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…

What's worse is that they could drop these services in the future, all of a sudden there is nothing capable of performing the function.

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

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Post by biot » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 11:13 AM UTC

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.