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

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Post by vilya »

keeperofdakeys wrote: post #49
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.

...leaving a gap in the market which something would surely arise to fill.

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

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Post by sirn »

hieronymusN wrote: post #47
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?

Actually W|A always have the result available in alt tag of the image:

    alt="IPv4 | 124.120.*.*\nIPv6  (short version) | ::ffff:*:*\n(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)" title="IPv4 | 124.120.*.*..."
So Sed still works ;)

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

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Post by artur_ »

catch23 wrote: post #56
user24 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

About a year ago I've built a small weather app which detects users' location using Geolocation API: http://wthr.in

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

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

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…

with the more significant things like movie listings, weather..... it's about Google + the world's information. They want it to flow through them/be indexed by them/found and offered up by them

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

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

billpg wrote: post #60

Remember, if the answer is delivered with HTTP, the reported IP may be the IP of your ISP's transparent proxy server. If you want the IP of your NAT box, you need a what-is-my-IP where the response is delivered over HTTPS.

Presumably using Google via https would do the trick, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip&ie=UTF-8&#...

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

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Post by mkr-hn »

If your site is so sparse that Google can ruin you just by handling a search query, your business model was broken or non-existent. There must be something they can do with all that traffic data to differentiate. Where's the aggregate statistics?

Any of the bigger ones could spring off into an ISP review site.

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

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Post by eli »

catch23 wrote: post #56
user24 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

http://www.wunderground.com/ has worked by geoip for a while now.
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