Show HN: See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries

by ionwake • 10 years ago

46 41 10 years ago

ionwake8• 10 years ago

I am just updating the page so when you click on the speech bubble it actually takes you to the google results, give me 10 mins.

[EDIT] The bubbles now take you through to the offending results.

[EDIT] Just some further information. I started building this yesterday and I am now happy with the result. It works by sending CORS requests via a yahoo to the google suggestions algorithm . I have now completed the project and am happy with it, so any feedback or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

PS I posted this 6 hours ago, but it crashed, it should now be ok for a while.

alphydan• 10 years ago

Bitcoin

[is dead, is bullshit, is dying, is bad, is not anonymous, is the future]

seems pretty accurate :)

ionwake8• 10 years ago

Ah great stuff, they are curious arent they!

Here is another couple I just found:

http://i.imgur.com/q4F7odF.png

http://i.imgur.com/6lJEyeJ.png

It is is also useful for superficially judging game popularity - eg: http://thehivemind.online/?eveonline http://thehivemind.online/?WOW

and companies: http://thehivemind.online/?nintendo

The microsoft and google queries are ... different

nickpsecurity7• 10 years ago

It was damn-near a super-intelligence on that one!

hellbanTHIS• 10 years ago

Try "Clinton", "Trump", and "Sanders" and be horrified/confused

nickpsecurity7• 10 years ago

Trump gives: is a Democrat; is love trump is life; is awesome; is right; is good; is Mussolini. Based on three of those, I conclude the algorithm is a fascist and correctly identifying with one of its own. This alliance with a secret, state apparatus explains aspects of my Ada answer in another comment where it was concerned with enforcement and had Fallout 4's trade secrets.

nickpsecurity7• 10 years ago

I typed in Ada as in Ada programming language. That one will get obscure or interesting results. Results: "is short for (Ada Lovelace?); is enforced by (semi-accurate if DOD); is bullshit (popular opinion); is invisible fallout 4 (used there?); is op (huh?); is missing fallout 4 (meant to be used for gaming?). So, three answers are a definite hit, one way off, and two might reveal a secret deployment that's a sign of things to come in gaming. Same kind of results you get using the Ada compiler to assess program correctness. Interesting...

teagoat• 10 years ago

Ada is the name of a character in Fallout 4: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ada

tlarkworthy• 10 years ago

'op' = over powered, in gamer speak. So, is the character Ada over powered in the game Fallout 4? is the question people are searching.

TazeTSchnitzel• 10 years ago

I typed in 'kindness', and my faith in humanity was reassured.

ionwake8• 10 years ago

http://thehivemind.online/?hugs

Analemma_2• 10 years ago

What fun! I like the suggestion here for 'kindness' as a good first search, but don't forget to try the inflammatory ones too! "liberals" and "gamergate" seem like fun places to start.

- Why the arbitrary 12-character limit? There are so many more controversial phrases yet to try.

- I seem to frequently get this error in Chrome when trying to submit: "hivemind.js:62 Uncaught TypeError: arr.map is not a function"

ionwake8• 10 years ago

Hi ,yep there are lots of issues, I only started developing this yesterday- I should be able fix it now, basically that occurs if no results are returned, maybe due to censorship (if it is a harsh term).

[EDIT] The arr.map issue should be fixed now - thanks for the heads up [EDIT] Also fixed text overflows in bubbles

Analemma_2• 10 years ago

Awww, mean old Google API. Why have something like this at all if you can't look up flamebait?

I wonder if you could build the same thing with the Twitter API and a quick clustering algorithm. That might even fit the spirit of the application better: Google definitely curates its search suggestions, whereas Twitter posts really are "the hivemind".

Still, this is cool. Thanks for sharing!

jszymborski• 10 years ago

Completely broken in FF46 (Win 10).

http://thehivemind.online/?poop for great laughs

_lce0• 10 years ago

Chrome has replaced IE on the web mono-culture :'(

watchdogtimer• 10 years ago

Same for FF43 on Linux

giulivo• 10 years ago

And FF46 on Linux which makes me think they just haven't ever tried this with FF.

Maarten88• 10 years ago

Same for IE11 on Windows

krisdol• 10 years ago

Same on safari on iOS

carlob• 10 years ago

Same on Safari OSX. How hard is it to make a form without a ton of needless crap?

ionwake8• 10 years ago

Have you built anything similar in under 24 hours? I would love to take a look. Thanks for the feedback regarding OSX.

ionwake8• 10 years ago

Sorry I only had time to test it on Chrome, but thank you for the feedback, I will look at cross browser compliancy when I get some more free time.

nailer• 10 years ago

Same for Edge

nautical• 10 years ago

http://thehivemind.online/?ycombinator

Kurtz79• 10 years ago

Mindless fun:

Agile: "is bad, is dead, is not a methodology"

God: "is dead, is not dead"

Cena : "is dead"

Capitalism: "is good, is bad"

Google: "is Skynet"

Apple: "is better than Samsung, is better than Android, is a fruit"

42 : "is the answer"

dionidium• 10 years ago

Facebook "is dead"

Twittter "is dying"

Quora "is dead"

Foursquare "is dead"

Snapchat "is dead"

Instagram "is dead"

Most of the apps I use are dead or dying.

unameee• 10 years ago

http://thehivemind.online/?apple

Mossisen• 10 years ago

http://thehivemind.online/?cake

jlis• 10 years ago

GARLIC BREAD IS THE FUTURE! http://thehivemind.online/?garlicbread

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