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Your public IP address, via Google Search

31 points by xPaw 14y ago

raikia 14y ago
It started doing this about a year ago. Definitely killed the need to have "whatsmyip.com" around.
fatalerrorx3 14y ago
I think this has been around longer than a year
- webmonkeyuk 14y ago
  It has - this is very old news http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128665 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128665
orphol 14y ago
Guess no more whatismyip what is next trace route :)
Khao 14y ago
Somehow it doesn't work for me. Maybe country/language differences or adblocker?
- rpicard 14y ago
  It works with the &hl=en parameter. I'm using a Swedish VPN so I ran into the same problem.
adatta02 14y ago
Also http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ for a completely clean "get my IP" page
- nuttendorfer 14y ago
  I like http://jsonip.com/ http://jsonip.com/ as well
- azar1 14y ago
  I like http://icanhazip.com http://icanhazip.com best
- powertower 14y ago
  It would be nice if there was a switch or param that we could use with Google's IP query to make it only return a minimal response on the page, or perhaps even get the IP via a HEAD request. Some applications need to use the public IP address. So far we mostly have to maintain our own solutions (http://myip.wampdeveloper.com/ http://myip.wampdeveloper.com/) for our own products (http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper). I got excited about GoogGoogle's IP query, then I looked at the page's source code! I guess I could parse that but still, there is no guarantee the format/syntax/text would stay the same. So far I've seen a few dozen different IP return URLs. And I'm sure there are 1000s more private ones. If we could have one that's guaranteed to be around, that would help everyone out.
ch0wn 14y ago
Another cool feature (is this new?): A scientific calculator https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3) https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3)
- pavel_lishin 14y ago
  Interesting, it'll display -0.345756 as the answer, but if you toggle the radians/degrees switch twice, it'll show you -0.3457564464
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    I guess the first result is calculated server-side and rounded, but now it's client-side without rounding.
- jervisfm 14y ago
  Yes, I believe so. I often use google for quick calculations and this is the first time I am seeing this show up.
- DanielRibeiro 14y ago
  Or a 3d plotter: https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(x)%20-%20sqrt(y) https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(x)%20-%20sqrt(y)
pavel_lishin 14y ago
Don't forget about curl ifconfig.me
- eru 14y ago
  That's nice. The website seems to have a special case for when your browser-string is curl?
pooriaazimi 14y ago
This is also nice: http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho Check the sidebar...
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  That's really good. Nice to see some innovation in SERPs - it lists ingredients that go in/with, for example, gazpacho and you can choose to include or exclude them from your recipe search. You can also set cooking times, eg "less than 15 mins"; and set calorific values, eg "less than 300cal".
stroboskop 14y ago
Other search engines have this feature, too. For a refreshing change from Google, I prefer this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip And if you really need to confirm your IP address with Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip (check out the many other '!' features)
- eru 14y ago
  You didn't give a reason why you prefer duckduckgo, or why anybody else should. (I'm using that engine myself.)
  - hamai 14y ago
    I think Google is not showing this to all countries, at least in my country I'm not seeing, but DDG shows it.
    - eru 14y ago
      That would be a good reason, and a way to enrich the discussion.
djcb 14y ago
alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com" alias myip2="curl -s icanhazip.com"
Monotoko 14y ago
I've been using this for a while... it was certainly around last year, maybe even the year before that.
cypherpunks01 14y ago
curl jsonip.com
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aidenn0 14y ago
Doesn't seem to work with ipv6? [edit] Clarification: with ipv4 it shows my ipv4 address, with ipv6, it doesn't show any address at the top.
- tinco 14y ago
  This is what I got when I clicked on the HN link: Your public IP address is 2001:610:1908:8000:224:1dff:----:--- Keep in mind that although you might think you're on ipv6, there's a lot of stuff between you and google that might prevent you from actually connecting to google using ipv6. I'm on a university campus that explicitly negotiated with google to have us on their ipv6 whitelist pretty early on. I forgot why they had a whitelist, hopefully its easier getting on google through ipv6 now. edit: redacted a bit, I just realised maybe publishing my ip could have negative effects
- archangel_one 14y ago
  WFM, I see "Your public IP address is 2620:0:1042:1:...."
salem 14y ago
Ha! That is going to kill the revenue of whatismyip.com and whatismyipaddress.com

31 points by xPaw 14y ago

raikia 14y ago

It started doing this about a year ago. Definitely killed the need to have "whatsmyip.com" around.

fatalerrorx3 14y ago

I think this has been around longer than a year

webmonkeyuk 14y ago
It has - this is very old news http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128665 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128665

orphol 14y ago

Guess no more whatismyip what is next trace route :)

Khao 14y ago

Somehow it doesn't work for me. Maybe country/language differences or adblocker?

rpicard 14y ago
It works with the &hl=en parameter. I'm using a Swedish VPN so I ran into the same problem.

adatta02 14y ago

Also http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ for a completely clean "get my IP" page

nuttendorfer 14y ago
I like http://jsonip.com/ http://jsonip.com/ as well
azar1 14y ago
I like http://icanhazip.com http://icanhazip.com best
powertower 14y ago
It would be nice if there was a switch or param that we could use with Google's IP query to make it only return a minimal response on the page, or perhaps even get the IP via a HEAD request. Some applications need to use the public IP address. So far we mostly have to maintain our own solutions (http://myip.wampdeveloper.com/ http://myip.wampdeveloper.com/) for our own products (http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper). I got excited about GoogGoogle's IP query, then I looked at the page's source code! I guess I could parse that but still, there is no guarantee the format/syntax/text would stay the same. So far I've seen a few dozen different IP return URLs. And I'm sure there are 1000s more private ones. If we could have one that's guaranteed to be around, that would help everyone out.

ch0wn 14y ago

Another cool feature (is this new?): A scientific calculator https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3) https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3)

pavel_lishin 14y ago
Interesting, it'll display -0.345756 as the answer, but if you toggle the radians/degrees switch twice, it'll show you -0.3457564464
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  I guess the first result is calculated server-side and rounded, but now it's client-side without rounding.
jervisfm 14y ago
Yes, I believe so. I often use google for quick calculations and this is the first time I am seeing this show up.
DanielRibeiro 14y ago
Or a 3d plotter: https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(x)%20-%20sqrt(y) https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(x)%20-%20sqrt(y)

pavel_lishin 14y ago

Don't forget about curl ifconfig.me

eru 14y ago
That's nice. The website seems to have a special case for when your browser-string is curl?

pooriaazimi 14y ago

This is also nice: http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho Check the sidebar...

pbhjpbhj 14y ago
That's really good. Nice to see some innovation in SERPs - it lists ingredients that go in/with, for example, gazpacho and you can choose to include or exclude them from your recipe search. You can also set cooking times, eg "less than 15 mins"; and set calorific values, eg "less than 300cal".

stroboskop 14y ago

Other search engines have this feature, too. For a refreshing change from Google, I prefer this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip And if you really need to confirm your IP address with Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip (check out the many other '!' features)

eru 14y ago
You didn't give a reason why you prefer duckduckgo, or why anybody else should. (I'm using that engine myself.)
- hamai 14y ago
  I think Google is not showing this to all countries, at least in my country I'm not seeing, but DDG shows it.
  - eru 14y ago
    That would be a good reason, and a way to enrich the discussion.

djcb 14y ago

alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com" alias myip2="curl -s icanhazip.com"

Monotoko 14y ago

I've been using this for a while... it was certainly around last year, maybe even the year before that.

cypherpunks01 14y ago

curl jsonip.com

deleted 14y ago

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aidenn0 14y ago

Doesn't seem to work with ipv6? [edit] Clarification: with ipv4 it shows my ipv4 address, with ipv6, it doesn't show any address at the top.

tinco 14y ago
This is what I got when I clicked on the HN link: Your public IP address is 2001:610:1908:8000:224:1dff:----:--- Keep in mind that although you might think you're on ipv6, there's a lot of stuff between you and google that might prevent you from actually connecting to google using ipv6. I'm on a university campus that explicitly negotiated with google to have us on their ipv6 whitelist pretty early on. I forgot why they had a whitelist, hopefully its easier getting on google through ipv6 now. edit: redacted a bit, I just realised maybe publishing my ip could have negative effects
archangel_one 14y ago
WFM, I see "Your public IP address is 2620:0:1042:1:...."

salem 14y ago

Ha! That is going to kill the revenue of whatismyip.com and whatismyipaddress.com