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zugumzug
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
definitely needs a gallery of good ones. You could build a whole blog out of this.
retroafroman
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
Didn't work for me. :/ http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...
wigginus
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...

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

Toucan
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...

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cappaert
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...

9ec4c12949a4f3
It's very simple, you're using it wrong.

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

Raphael
He does have a legitimate issue. The suggest algorithm guesses that "MIT" is the start of "mitochondria" or "mitosis".
cappaert
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
BEST Hacker News hack in ages: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+do...
techbio
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!

Omnipresent
Fun idea. Ven Diagram overlaps comments which makes it harder to see the diagram. This is on firefox 3.6.11
rmc
I should have fixed the veen diagrams/disqus bug on FF now.
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dtap
Seems like spam with so many links to the site...
ced
Links on HN are nofollow'ed anyway.
rmc
People are linking to the site themselves to share the results. No sock puppets here.
3pt14159
This is amazing: Canada, America, Europe

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

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

rmc
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
In other words, we will need fully qualified user names.
roadnottaken
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
Seems like the first character of some are cut off. 'he cosby show', 'il wayne', 'ustin Bieber'
CWIZO
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 :)
roadnottaken
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.

Dove
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".

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