A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn

by rmc • 16 years ago

310 87 16 years ago

zugumzug• 16 years ago

This is pretty cool, but it's hard to think of good parameters that generate a funny or interesting diagram. Maybe you could think of some more suggestions.

user24• 16 years ago

definitely needs a gallery of good ones. You could build a whole blog out of this.

retroafroman• 16 years ago

This is probably very politically incorrect, but if you put different enthnicities or nationalities (blacks, French people, whites) as parameters, it's pretty easy to see what people's stereotypes are.

endtime• 16 years ago

Didn't work for me. :/ http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

wigginus• 16 years ago

Some technical suggestions:

* programming languages: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

* operating systems: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

apl2• 16 years ago

Deep down, I always knew that the only factor differentiating the Mac from everything else is that it's damn expensive in Australia.

tmarthal• 16 years ago

If you get rid of the "Why" and "so", the queries become much more interesting, albeit somewhat garbled:

programming languages: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=is+X&#... (s/c/perl) operating systems: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=is+X&#... (mac and ryan back together? is linux illegal?)

etc.

borismus• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

klous• 16 years ago

Why is X (Andoid, iPhone, Symbian) so... http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

ig1• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Is+X&#...

petervandijck• 16 years ago

Very cool, but I really dislike Disqus.

Toucan• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

This is superb! Some odd handling of spaces though. See: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

n-named• 16 years ago

Interesting to see how this query changes from yours: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

I did a side by side tab back and forth to visually diff. Is marriage really that bad???

[Edit] And further: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

wtf.

[Edit 2] You could probably really promote this app with some well thought out queries.

cappaert2• 16 years ago

Great project idea, but I can't get it to actually work.

I'm encountering a similar error to Toucan with respect to the spacing. If I enter a query "MIT is", Google is returning results that include "is" as part of a larger word. Ex: "MIT Israel divestment". I'd like to query "MIT is " -- including the space -- but it looks like your query strips it out. I think this fix would return much better results.

Also, it looks like even when returning the result "MIT Israel divestment," the returned result is stripping the first few characters. Examples:

ael divest ael divestment ael investment sael stock aeli stock samic society amic studies overrated tes

Thoughts? Query link: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#20=&star...

9ec4c12949a4f32• 16 years ago

It's very simple, you're using it wrong.

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#20=&star...

Raphael• 16 years ago

He does have a legitimate issue. The suggest algorithm guesses that "MIT" is the start of "mitochondria" or "mitosis".

cappaert2• 16 years ago

I can obviously get it to work with most queries. I was just pointing out that it does seem to strip out letters or return a poor result if the query is part of a larger word.

Yes, I'm using "X is"; I used "MIT is" in my comment for greater clarity.

lucraft• 16 years ago

BEST Hacker News hack in ages: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+do...

SudarshanP2• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+do...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

anthonyb• 16 years ago

Here's another religious one:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

dheerosaur• 16 years ago

Why does my {wife, girlfriend, ex girlfriend)

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+do...

techbio• 16 years ago

Awesome hack. I want to export the results!

Bug: Some first letters are getting chomped for the search

"guitar X" for X: Fender, Gibson, Yamaha

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=guitar...

http://www.ampnote.com/venn.jpg

Edit: It seems to be improving. Wish the Discus did not interfere with the circles!

rmc5• 16 years ago

I didn't know Disqus was messing up the display in FF. I've fixed it now.

cloudwalking• 16 years ago

http://browserlab.adobe.com

9ec4c12949a4f32• 16 years ago

Try a URI-encoded char code for X

Omnipresent• 16 years ago

Fun idea. Ven Diagram overlaps comments which makes it harder to see the diagram. This is on firefox 3.6.11

rmc5• 16 years ago

I should have fixed the veen diagrams/disqus bug on FF now.

mambodog• 16 years ago

Illuminating: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

adriand• 16 years ago

Google has way too much insight into human nature:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+do...

kapitalx2• 16 years ago

Looks like google considers everyone a lier.

dtap• 16 years ago

Seems like spam with so many links to the site...

ced• 16 years ago

Links on HN are nofollow'ed anyway.

rmc5• 16 years ago

People are linking to the site themselves to share the results. No sock puppets here.

SudarshanP2• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

3pt14159• 16 years ago

This is amazing: Canada, America, Europe

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

gloob• 16 years ago

It's like everyone who searches "Why is America so $foo" is Canadian, and everyone who searches "Why is Europe so $foo" is American.

danpker• 16 years ago

Who searches, "Why is Europe so warm"? It's freezing here at the moment.

hbt• 16 years ago

A funny one

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+ar...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+do...

AlexMuir• 16 years ago

Why are (dogs|men|women) so ...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+ar...

raju• 16 years ago

This is pretty cool. On a side-note, both technomancy and I attended Clojure Conj this weekend. I wonder where he found the time to do this. I know I was exhausted at the end of it and pretty much all of Sunday veg-ing on my couch.

Great work.

rmc5• 16 years ago

Actually, I'm not connected to the original 'technomancy'. I've never met the guy. I just liked the domain name (from reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon), and it's my personal domain name. I think 'technomancy' is on 'http://technomancy.us.

die_sekte• 16 years ago

In other words, we will need fully qualified user names.

roadnottaken4• 16 years ago

Awesome... I don't even know who this "Snooki" is, but she must not be well liked:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+X+...

theycallmemorty• 16 years ago

Seems like the first character of some are cut off. 'he cosby show', 'il wayne', 'ustin Bieber'

CWIZO• 16 years ago

I think it's one of the stars from "Jersey shore" (or something like that). According to South Park (where I've learned that) she is small, fat and not particularly bright. So this seems spot on :)

joelhaus• 16 years ago

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e09-its-a-j...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Snooki and generally, a fantastic episode (unfortunately offline until 11/13).

sp4rki2• 16 years ago

This is so screwed up on so many levels: Whites, Blacks, Arabs...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

roadnottaken4• 16 years ago

Wow, people don't think much of our politicians...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=X+is&#...

I guess this isn't too surprising.

roadnottaken4• 16 years ago

Hmmm, people think even-less of our political parties:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=X+are&...

Why so much negativity?

kapitalx2• 16 years ago

I find it interesting that these are what people are actually searching for. It looks like most of those common "search terms" are already formed opinions and ppl are mearly searching to see if others agree with them.

Dove3• 16 years ago

The "Barack Obama is a cactus" thing had me really confused until I searched for it myself. It's an Onion article, and a funny one.

The "ues" "am" and "ael" entries seem to be a result of how the query is handled. "Hillary Clinton issues" is the autocomplete; it's dropping the s after "is" and giving us "ues".

allenp• 16 years ago

I guess I'll post one too: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

injekt• 16 years ago

I could have fun with this for a very... very... long time..

binomial• 16 years ago

Google, Microsoft and Apple: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+is...

joshzayin• 16 years ago

I like that Google is both fast and slow, according to that diagram.

pama2• 16 years ago

People need tutorials:

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=web+X&...

ch0wn• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

Oxryly• 16 years ago

Oh, I think I need to wash my hands after posting this.

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

sp4rki2• 16 years ago

Ohh look at the koreans part: "good at starcraft". I don't know if it's awesome (or sad) that Korean stereotypes (can I call it a stereotype? Since this is probably completely 100% true anyways), include being good at starcraft as one of their most talked about traits.

NAAAAA, it's freaking Awesome!

enki• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=X+is+l...

msg• 16 years ago

bug report: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=+too+X...

Words are getting clipped.

Dove3• 16 years ago

How can I get my {wife, cat, dog} to . . . http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+ca...

Will my {boyfriend, cat, dog} . . . http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=will+m...

My {friend, wife, husband} is addicted to . . . http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=my+X+i...

ZeroGravitas• 16 years ago

Google suggest is a really quite frightening window on the world. How many people have to type "How can I get my wife to cheat" into Google before it shows up here?

Dove3• 16 years ago

I know. I put "Why does my {mom, dad, brother}" in there, and was instantly sorry I had.

antimatter15• 16 years ago

I made something similar, albeit slightly earlier (inspired by the same tweet-challenge) http://antimatter15.github.com/venn-google/venn-google.html

binarycheese• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

gmichnikov• 16 years ago

christians, jews, muslims: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

rmc5• 16 years ago

"Why is my (dog|cat|girlfriend) so..." http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

sdurkin• 16 years ago

Windows|Mac|Linux

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...

sukuriant• 16 years ago

Mac. Expensive in Australia.

VladRussian• 16 years ago

whenever question is about people - "rude, stupid", about hardware, companies, etc... - "popular, successful". Pretty much summarizes nature of human civilization.

hamilcarbarca• 16 years ago

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

norova• 16 years ago

Don't think this one has been posted... I found it quite humorous:

Why are American {men|women|children} so... : http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

m-photonic• 16 years ago

Wow, I don't think anything else that's been posted in this thread gives such stark results as that. It seems almost like you broke it.

pama2• 16 years ago

How to get {rich, famous, happy} ...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=how+to...

resdirector2• 16 years ago

Was [Hitler|Jesus|Muhammad]...