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

[user24]

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 get made redundant by Google.

Also, it's interesting to compare this with, say, Yahoo's approach. Yahoo would have put an "IP" widget and a "weather" widget on their portal homepage. Google waits until the user searches for the info before giving it to them - which keeps their homepage clean and more importantly keeps their message strong "we do search well", while Yahoo's always seemed to be "we do a whole bunch of stuff, some of which you may need". I know Google/Yahoo comparisons aren't really du jour, but still it's interesting.

[biot]

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

[antirez]

Actually the only way for a "my IP" application to make some money is be indexed as first result in Google I guess. At least I never remember the domain of one of that 200 trivial apps and search on google. So makes a lot of sense they showing you the result if you search for "ip" or "my ip".

[ChrisArchitect]

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

[markmccraw]

Well, a lot of those webapps fall in the "feature, not a product category" and were pretty clearly living life on the edge.

I await the day I can anagram via the search bar.

[keeperofdakeys]

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.

[Urgo]

You don't even need to do it in a question form, just a search for 'ip' works

http://www.google.com/search?q=ip

[darkstar999]

Duck Duck Go does this.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip

[tagawa]

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.

[shrikant]

Same issue as Wolfram Alpha's IP guesser. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128949

[lacker]

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

[billpg]

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.

[blacksmith_tb]

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

[molo_]

You can proxy https. See RFC2817 section 5.

-molo

[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.

[Splines]

Up next: What ports do I have open?

[chaosfox]

http://nmap-online.com

[larryw]

I prefer http://www.moanmyip.com/

[shrikant]

For those not in the know, above link is NSFW.

[josephb]

Waiting for them to support IPv6. That will be fun..

[rekoros]

Just "ip" works as well.

[vnuk]

Doesn't work for me :|

http://imgur.com/t9jA6

[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.

[noonespecial]

Ok, so I have a curl/awk one-liner that can get me my ip in shell scripts that uses checkip.dyndns.org. It's super simple because the results are super simple from checkip.

Anyone want to take a stab at this for google's result page?

[fjarlq]

This works, but only accidentally:

    curl --silent 'http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip' | sed 's/.*Client IP address: //;s/).*//;q'

Google responds with HTTP error 403 (Forbidden), but it just so happens the client IP address is in the error page.

[a3_nm]

Even simpler:

    curl icanhazip.com

[Nick_C]

If your use-case is from ssh'ing in a remote box, this may be simpler:

  #!/bin/sh
  # example from `who - u`:
  #nick     pts/0  2011-07-20 20:44 . 7856 (xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.internode.on.net)

  who -u | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[p.]"} /internode/ {print gensub("-",".","g",$6); exit}'

You might need to play around with gensub(...). Sometime `who` reports the IP as xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx and sometimes as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[bostonvaulter2]

I prefer 'curl ifconfig.me'

[ralph]

One way:

    wget -Ufoo -qO- 'http://www.google.com/search?q=ip' |
    sed -n '/.*Your public IP address is [^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/{s//\1/p;q;}'

[nodata]

Or use https://ip.appspot.com/

[27182818284]

For months:

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

[shrikant]

For months... what? This is what it shows me, here in my studio apartment in London:

http://i.imgur.com/uXBJk.jpg

Edit: I knew that IP looked familiar - this is likely because of the Modify Headers Firefox add-on. Oh well, still broken.

[hieronymusN]

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?

[treelovinhippie]

And thus one line of code kills a dozen websites.

[icandoitbetter]

Not particularly valuable ones, at least.

[RyanMcGreal]

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

[chanux]

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.

[stewbrew]

I'm slightly amazed at how inconsistent these special queries work. For international users (I simply assume it's not just me), this trick only works if I add &hl=en to the URL. Any explanations?

[beaumartinez]

They haven't yet rolled it out to all the localised versions.

[martokus]

And yet another search vertical killed by google's own results. At least they are not scraping the result this time, so nothing to blame.

[rl1987]

I prefer http://ifconfig.me. It tells more information than just IP address.

[robryan]

Now just need something of the form: 1262307721 to date, that and ip are my 2 main lazy uses of Google.

[ConstantineXVI]

Plug in "unix date 1262307721" to Wolfram Alpha?

[ralph]

Do you know of

    date -d @1262307721

[_grrr]

Google can also do currency conversions for you http://tinyurl.com/6zzoqmt

[icebraining]

Don't use shortened URLs here, please. People like to know where they're going ;) Especially since trolls use them to get people on goatse pages.

[acg]

I'm sure "where am I" is next