Google Hacks is what made this site, but unfortunately with theremoval of almost all of Googles search APIs they more or less allstopped working. I've removed them and leave this page for historicreasons. If you know of a stable search API, ping me!
Pin live Google News headlines on a world map. Locations are extracted from each headline with a small NER model and resolved against the GeoNames gazetteer. Based on the original from 2004
Calculate the color associated with an image by averaging the images when searching for this word. The ocean is blue, mars is red.
Translating words from one language in another seems straight forward enough. But translating one word to a different culture is sheer impossible. Breakfast translates to 'Ontbijt' in Dutch, but the meal differs significantly. Culture Lense shows this by using Image Search to visualize words not in different languages, but in different cultures.
Physical distances are not the same as psychological distances. Physical distances are easy enough to measure, but how do we go about measuring psychological distances? The Mapped Web does this by taking the chance that given a page contains the name of one country it will also contain the name of another country as a measure for psychological distance. The resulting images show us how close countries are to each other in psychological terms.
Tick the languages you speak and find out how much of the world's population you can have a conversation with — plus a colour-coded map showing where those speakers live. Data is the 2004 snapshot from Encarta-via-the-original-Zope-project; updating to a current dataset is a future job.
Headstones for the cluster of 2003-2009 hacks I built on top of Google's SOAP Search API, AJAX Search, Translate v1 and Image Search HTML. All of those APIs are now dead; this page keeps the ideas alive.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.