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

http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

by suivix • 15 years ago

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27182818284• 15 years ago

For months:

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

shrikant4• 15 years ago

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.

pilif• 15 years ago

how would a modify headers add-on be able to let the server think that you are coming from a different address? It's not as if the browser sends the origin address as a HTTP header.

It doesn't have to. It's part of the IP packet which contains the TCP packet which contains the request headers.

Are you sure that you are not using a proxy server at the address Wolfram gives you?

Edit: On second thought, you could try to fool server-side detection by setting a non-standard X-Forwarded-For header, but a what is my ip service shouldn't trust that and just report the real remote address.

hieronymusN3• 15 years ago

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?

sirn• 15 years ago

Actually W|A always have the result available in alt tag of the image:

    alt="IPv4 | 124.120.*.*\nIPv6  (short version) | ::ffff:*:*\n(as seen by Wolfram|Alpha)" title="IPv4 | 124.120.*.*..."

So Sed still works ;)

drbaltar• 15 years ago

the ipchicken is not happy. Google kills yet another industry!

rekoros• 15 years ago

Just "ip" works as well.

vnuk• 15 years ago

Doesn't work for me :|

http://imgur.com/t9jA6

brodd2• 15 years ago

Looks like it's only active on .com

Splines• 15 years ago

Up next: What ports do I have open?

chaosfox• 15 years ago

http://nmap-online.com

icebraining3• 15 years ago

I've always used ShieldsUp![1]; I remember using it before I even had my own computer!

[1] https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

lacker• 15 years ago

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

hboon• 15 years ago

http://jsonip.com/ is good too, but http://whatismyip.org is even better because you can just select all and copy right away.

flexd2• 15 years ago

jsonip and whatismyip tells me the the IPv4 address though. Google is giving me my IPv6 address!

Would be cool to get both somehow.

clu3• 15 years ago

Yeah, and I think google has just accidentally "killed" whatismyip.com . Not totally but I'm pretty sure the site's traffic will decrease significantly

seppo0010• 15 years ago

$ curl ifconfig.me

Or just http://ifconfig.me/

icebraining3• 15 years ago

I like http://icanhazip.com Great for scripts too.

devicenull• 15 years ago

There's always http://checkip.dyndns.org , which has a lot lower chance of just being suddenly removed for whatever reason.

treelovinhippie• 15 years ago

And thus one line of code kills a dozen websites.

icandoitbetter• 15 years ago

Not particularly valuable ones, at least.

RyanMcGreal• 15 years ago

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

darkstar999• 15 years ago

Duck Duck Go does this.

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

tagawa• 15 years ago

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.

shrikant4• 15 years ago

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

Urgo• 15 years ago

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

adulau2• 15 years ago

It's also a great news for Malware too as they usually check for their remote IP. But maybe that will be another way of Google to detect if the local machine is infected in a near future.

WA• 15 years ago

Malware usually opens a reverse (TCP) connection and thus does not require the remote IP of the infected machine. It only needs to know the IP or domain name of the server it wants to communicate with.

adulau2• 15 years ago

Regularly reversing malware samples, we still see many malware getting their respective remote IP from remote services. This is even used by some recent malware to update the bootstrap DHT with their own IP... In such case, they don't even need to contact directly the C&C.

I don't get why my previous comment is down-voted ;-)

noonespecial• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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.

gizzlon• 15 years ago

haha, nice one

nodata• 15 years ago

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

a3_nm• 15 years ago

Even simpler:

    curl icanhazip.com

libria• 15 years ago

also,

    http://myip.dnsomatic.com
    http://whatismyip.org

bostonvaulter2• 15 years ago

I prefer 'curl ifconfig.me'

ralph3• 15 years ago

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;}'

eli2• 15 years ago

Google really doesn't it like it when you script their search. Better to use one of the many, many services designed for this purpose. Or set one up yourself in roughly one line of code.

Nick_C• 15 years ago

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

troymc• 15 years ago

ShieldsUP! - a free service from Gibson Research Corporation - will tell you your IP address and a whole lot more: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

r0h4n• 15 years ago

try "my ip"

larryw• 15 years ago

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

shrikant4• 15 years ago

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

josephb• 15 years ago

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

forcer• 15 years ago

sad day :(

martokus• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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

user242• 15 years ago

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.

keeperofdakeys2• 15 years ago

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.

vilya• 15 years ago

...leaving a gap in the market which something would surely arise to fill.

biot• 15 years ago

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

user242• 15 years ago

This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same with weather. Getting a good weather app is not 10 seconds of coding. Some, like ip address, are simple things, but even so whatismyip.com built a huge range of products around that one simple service.

ChrisArchitect• 15 years ago

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

antirez• 15 years ago

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".

markmccraw2• 15 years ago

I bet some of them find alternative ways to get visitors and that a decent number of people use the bookmark feature. Now, how valuable a visitor is to a page like that is another matter.

markmccraw2• 15 years ago

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.

chanux• 15 years ago

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.

_grrr• 15 years ago

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

icebraining3• 15 years ago

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.

robryan• 15 years ago

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

ConstantineXVI• 15 years ago

Plug in "unix date 1262307721" to Wolfram Alpha?

ralph3• 15 years ago

Do you know of

    date -d @1262307721

tomkarlo• 15 years ago

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.

billpg• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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_• 15 years ago

You can proxy https. See RFC2817 section 5.

-molo

acg• 15 years ago

I'm sure "where am I" is next

mkr-hn• 15 years ago

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.

nobody314159• 15 years ago

Just trying out some other features type "time" into the address bar in chrome Returns: 8:44am Wednesday (PDT) - Time in Vancouver, BC

Kadrith• 15 years ago

Someone asked me what day Thanksgiving falls on in 2012; I just realized I could type "thanksgiving date 2012" and get the answer.

stewbrew• 15 years ago

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• 15 years ago

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

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

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