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raikia
It started doing this about a year ago. Definitely killed the need to have "whatsmyip.com" around.
orphol
Guess no more whatismyip what is next trace route :)
Khao
Somehow it doesn't work for me. Maybe country/language differences or adblocker?
rpicard
It works with the &hl=en parameter. I'm using a Swedish VPN so I ran into the same problem.
adatta02
Also http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ for a completely clean "get my IP" page
powertower
It would be nice if there was a switch or param that we could use with Google's IP query to make it only return a minimal response on the page, or perhaps even get the IP via a HEAD request.

Some applications need to use the public IP address. So far we mostly have to maintain our own solutions (http://myip.wampdeveloper.com/) for our own products (http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper).

I got excited about GoogGoogle's IP query, then I looked at the page's source code! I guess I could parse that but still, there is no guarantee the format/syntax/text would stay the same.

So far I've seen a few dozen different IP return URLs. And I'm sure there are 1000s more private ones. If we could have one that's guaranteed to be around, that would help everyone out.

ch0wn
Another cool feature (is this new?): A scientific calculator https://www.google.com/search?q=ln(4)%20-%20sqrt(3)
pavel_lishin
Interesting, it'll display -0.345756 as the answer, but if you toggle the radians/degrees switch twice, it'll show you -0.3457564464
TazeTSchnitzel
I guess the first result is calculated server-side and rounded, but now it's client-side without rounding.
jervisfm
Yes, I believe so. I often use google for quick calculations and this is the first time I am seeing this show up.
pavel_lishin
Don't forget about

    curl ifconfig.me
eru
That's nice. The website seems to have a special case for when your browser-string is curl?
stroboskop
Other search engines have this feature, too. For a refreshing change from Google, I prefer this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip

And if you really need to confirm your IP address with Google: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!g+ip

(check out the many other '!' features)

eru
You didn't give a reason why you prefer duckduckgo, or why anybody else should. (I'm using that engine myself.)
hamai
I think Google is not showing this to all countries, at least in my country I'm not seeing, but DDG shows it.
eru
That would be a good reason, and a way to enrich the discussion.
djcb 

  alias myip="dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com"

  alias myip2="curl -s icanhazip.com"
Monotoko
I've been using this for a while... it was certainly around last year, maybe even the year before that.
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aidenn0
Doesn't seem to work with ipv6?

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Clarification: with ipv4 it shows my ipv4 address, with ipv6, it doesn't show any address at the top.

tinco
This is what I got when I clicked on the HN link:

Your public IP address is 2001:610:1908:8000:224:1dff:----:---

Keep in mind that although you might think you're on ipv6, there's a lot of stuff between you and google that might prevent you from actually connecting to google using ipv6.

I'm on a university campus that explicitly negotiated with google to have us on their ipv6 whitelist pretty early on. I forgot why they had a whitelist, hopefully its easier getting on google through ipv6 now.

edit: redacted a bit, I just realised maybe publishing my ip could have negative effects

archangel_one
WFM, I see "Your public IP address is 2620:0:1042:1:...."
pooriaazimi
This is also nice:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gazpacho

Check the sidebar...

pbhjpbhj
That's really good. Nice to see some innovation in SERPs - it lists ingredients that go in/with, for example, gazpacho and you can choose to include or exclude them from your recipe search. You can also set cooking times, eg "less than 15 mins"; and set calorific values, eg "less than 300cal".
salem
Ha! That is going to kill the revenue of whatismyip.com and whatismyipaddress.com