Duck Duck Go tells you your IP when you ask for it

[llambda]

For some reason this keeps getting flagged: it's disappointing that HN is evidently not willing to allow a counterpoint to a multi-billion dollar search company on the front page; on the one hand there's a submission with 70-some points that shows Google offers this functionality on the other we apparently can't also point out Duck Duck Go is equally capable. Personally I think that Duck Duck Go deserves more attention than it gets.

[libria]

By all means, upvote and contribute to the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128997.

Personally I think that Duck Duck Go deserves more attention than it gets.

Perhaps this is getting flagged b/c folks see it as promotion/spam?

[illdave]

Searching Duck Duck Go for "show hn" shows that you can search HNsearch with their !bang syntax: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=show+hn

[jrussbowman]

www.unscatter.com also has slashtags for HNSsearch. /hn, /hnstories and /hncomments all work

http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhn http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhnstories&#... http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=duckduckgo+%2Fhncomments&...

I didn't win, but I added it as an entry for that contest a while back.

[Sodaware]

DDG has a lot of short commands like this. There's a list of regular ones here: http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html (stuff like "is it raining?").

More technical commands are here: http://duckduckgo.com/tech.html (like IP address lookups, whois commands and password generation).

[jrussbowman]

Just checked, the duckduckgo instant answer integration on www.unscatter.com got this by default it appears

http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=what+is+my+ip%3F

[JonnieCache]

Does anyone know of a site which returns nothing but your IP address in text/plain when hit with a GET request?

Such a thing would be useful for scripting purposes.

[llambda]

http://whatismyip.org

[hboon]

http://ifconfig.me/ and useful stuff other than IP address (scroll down)

[bradleyland]

There's also http://jsonip.com/, which can be useful for scripting.

[piers]

http://icanhazip.com

[brador]

A competent programmer could build it in the time it took you to read this.

[gunjank]

While Google gives my public IP, Duck Duck Go gives the IP address of my local network, that is behind my office's firewall.

How useful is this IP address?

[arethuza]

It definitely only gets the external IP for my work PC here - perhaps your firewall isn't using NAT and you have a public IP address range on your internal network?

[sp332]

Unless it's using javascript to show you your own IP, I don't even know how it would be possible for a server on the internet to know your internal IP.

[x0ner]

So does Google?

[smoove]

shorter version: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip