A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator(technomancy.org)

310 pointsby rmcvor 16 Jahren87 comments

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

91 comments

lucraftvor 16 Jahren

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

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

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

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

anthonybvor 16 Jahren

Here's another religious one:

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

dheerosaurvor 16 Jahren

Why does my {wife, girlfriend, ex girlfriend)

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

roadnottakenvor 16 Jahren

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+...

theycallmemortyvor 16 Jahren

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

CWIZOvor 16 Jahren

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 :)

joelhausvor 16 Jahren

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).

3pt14159vor 16 Jahren

This is amazing: Canada, America, Europe

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

gloobvor 16 Jahren

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

danpkervor 16 Jahren

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

hbtvor 16 Jahren

A funny one

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

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

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

Dovevor 16 Jahren

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...

ZeroGravitasvor 16 Jahren

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?

Dovevor 16 Jahren

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

cappaertvor 16 Jahren

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...

9ec4c12949a4f3vor 16 Jahren

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

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

cappaertvor 16 Jahren

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.

Raphaelvor 16 Jahren

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

sp4rkivor 16 Jahren

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

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

adriandvor 16 Jahren

Google has way too much insight into human nature:

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

kapitalxvor 16 Jahren

Looks like google considers everyone a lier.

antimatter15vor 16 Jahren

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

norovavor 16 Jahren

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-photonicvor 16 Jahren

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.

Oxrylyvor 16 Jahren

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

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

sp4rkivor 16 Jahren

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!

iccovor 16 Jahren

What do Facebook, Twitter and sex all have in common?

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

pamavor 16 Jahren

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

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

resdirectorvor 16 Jahren

Was [Hitler|Jesus|Muhammad]...

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

pamavor 16 Jahren

People need tutorials:

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

ch0wnvor 16 Jahren

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

roadnottakenvor 16 Jahren

Wow, I guess there's one thing everyone wants:

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

How can I get my (wife|girlfriend|boyfriend) to...

kind of sad, really.

resdirectorvor 16 Jahren

I like this one...has some sort of poignancy to it that I can't quite put my finger on:

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

AlexMuirvor 16 Jahren

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

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

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

injektvor 16 Jahren

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

techbiovor 16 Jahren

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!

rmcvor 16 Jahren

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

cloudwalkingvor 16 Jahren

http://browserlab.adobe.com

9ec4c12949a4f3vor 16 Jahren

Try a URI-encoded char code for X

photon_offvor 16 Jahren

If I made this, it would allow for you to input as many things for "X" as you wanted. Thus, it would be much less successful.

roadnottakenvor 16 Jahren

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.

Dovevor 16 Jahren

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".

roadnottakenvor 16 Jahren

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

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

Why so much negativity?

kapitalxvor 16 Jahren

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.

rmcvor 16 Jahren

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

allenpvor 16 Jahren

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

mtrimpevor 16 Jahren

What do books, music and movies have in common:

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

gmichnikovvor 16 Jahren

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

binomialvor 16 Jahren

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

joshzayinvor 16 Jahren

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

mambodogvor 16 Jahren

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

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

hcarmichelvor 16 Jahren

Is it that hard to spell late? http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+X+...

rajuvor 16 Jahren

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.

rmcvor 16 Jahren

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_sektevor 16 Jahren

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

msgvor 16 Jahren

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

Words are getting clipped.

hcarmichelvor 16 Jahren

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

binarycheesevor 16 Jahren

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

hamilcarbarcavor 16 Jahren

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

SudarshanPvor 16 Jahren

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

sdurkinvor 16 Jahren

Windows|Mac|Linux

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

sukuriantvor 16 Jahren

Mac. Expensive in Australia.

enkivor 16 Jahren

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

[deleted]vor 16 Jahren

Omnipresentvor 16 Jahren

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

rmcvor 16 Jahren

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

VladRussianvor 16 Jahren

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

kapitalxvor 16 Jahren

dtapvor 16 Jahren

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

rmcvor 16 Jahren

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

cedvor 16 Jahren

Links on HN are nofollow'ed anyway.

zugumzugvor 16 Jahren

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.

wigginusvor 16 Jahren

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...

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

aplvor 16 Jahren

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

notahackervor 16 Jahren

According to mine it's differentiated by being "better than PC" and being illegal.

More confusingly it enjoys relationships with Ryan and Kyle (a soap?), "ulay culkin dead" which I'm assuming was a rumour about the Home Alone star, and "ookout pregnant again", which really confused me when I assumed it was referring to Macbooks...

tmarthalvor 16 Jahren

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.

Confusionvor 16 Jahren

I also like http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+X+...

klousvor 16 Jahren

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

user24vor 16 Jahren

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

borismusvor 16 Jahren

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

retroafromanvor 16 Jahren

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.

endtimevor 16 Jahren

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

aplvor 16 Jahren

Someone has to play the advocatus diaboli:

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

It's shocking, but also shockingly funny. Caveat emptor, guys. Personally, I'm appalled but hardly surprised. On average, the internet remains a very stupid place.

FraaJadvor 16 Jahren

This was recently on reddit (maybe even HN): http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...

ig1vor 16 Jahren

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

petervandijckvor 16 Jahren

Very cool, but I really dislike Disqus.

Toucanvor 16 Jahren

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-namedvor 16 Jahren

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.