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Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride It might be ordering the results by hue.
Also quite vivid: https://picular.co/neon Not so vivid: https://picular.co/noir
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?
If you try linking to https://picular.co/four+letter+words
...some of those four letter words won't return results, even if they do exist. Probably because they (futurememories.se) don't want to associate their product with lewd profanity, if/when people start sharing random links on social media.
In case anyone is wondering how this works, it does a google image search and then extracts the primary color of each result. That’s why you see unexpected colors like grey for “heart”: image search returns black and white hearts.
My first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total. Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.
It's amusing having a background in software development and this is the first thought I had. (like many here I am sure would) I don't know exactly "why" this works, but knowing that it likely would before trying. (like hitting refresh when your web app barfs)
Someone else suggested cause of the apple logo... and it seems they are likely right. :)
https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&tbm=isch
Shows the "holes" in this method.
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My first search for "apple" gives you a bunch of greys and a red is only the 8th result. There's more grey, beige, a blue, black, yellow, orange, but only one green and 5 reds total. Searching "heart" at least gives you a red first and majority reds.
Try "apples instead", all red and a single lime green. It's amusing having a background in software development and this is the first thought I had. (like many here I am sure would) I don't know exactly "why" this works, but knowing that it likely would before trying. (like hitting refresh when your web app barfs) Someone else suggested cause of the apple logo... and it seems they are likely right. :) https://www.goo…
I just tried "love" and "hate" - the first three results were very similar shades of red.
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If that's what it's doing, how is it giving me colors for nonsense words? I wonder if it's just automatically accepting the spelling suggestion Google provides for searches?
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?
The fact that it works for non existing search results shows that it's ML
the machine has lots to learn.