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http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to

by folkster on 11/19/11, 9:57 PM with 123 comments

  • by korussian on 11/20/11, 12:31 AM

    I teach EFL, and this would be fantastically useful in class for matching up vocab with pictures on the fly.

    The only issue is: I need a much larger rez image to put up on the big projector. Since this is doing Google Image Search... any chance for a:

    http://keyword.jpg.to/large

    http://keyword.jpg.to/medium

    [plus]

    http://keyword.jpg.to/photo

    http://keyword.jpg.to/clipart

    [plus]

    http://keyword.jpg.to/red

    http://keyword.jpg.to/green

    http://keyword.jpg.to/white

  • by kristopolous on 11/19/11, 11:04 PM

    I started with http://hello.jpg.to/ and was delighted by the results, thinking that the web app translated my phrase into a variety of languages and then made a stylish motif. Eagerly, I typed in http://goodbye.jpg.to/ to see, again, what looked like a totally custom image based on random text that I put in. I have to admit, I found this to be http://totallyawesome.jpg.to/ at this point, pressing F5 and hoping for other stylized generations.

    After not seeing any, I decided to just try my name ... and found a football player.

  • by garethsprice on 11/19/11, 11:24 PM

    Cute. Needs a method to return the URL as a 301 redirect so it could be used as a placeholder image. This could be in the image filename.

    For example: http://kittens.jpg.to/301.jpg

    Another feature could be to return a random result for that image search.

    For example: http://ass.jpg.to/random.jpg

  • by MetalMASK on 11/20/11, 12:22 AM

    It is the first image result on google image search. The previous comments on different keywords verified this. To amaze yourself, try "sex" and "male"

    behind-the-scene technical aspect are not difficult to realize (either google image API, which is deprecated, or parse the result of http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=h... and get the first image url after a predefined string anchor, say <span class=rg_ctlv>), but the idea to simplify input and output is brilliant.

    To deal with not-so-good image search result: since google image search is presenting the result in a thumbnail group, it might be worthwhile to look into their ranking scheme for the result. It might be that the first one (on the top left) is not the most relevant result. It won't shock me if google ranked the relevance of result from center to peripheral. In the end that's how we look at a pile of images--we tend to start from the middle. Try a few examples, from the ones I tried the middle row middle column image is much more relevant than the top left result.

    just my two cents.

  • by Nican on 11/20/11, 7:08 AM

    jpg.to does not seem to be a complete metric space. The Cauchy sequence of Pi does seem to converge to Pi. http://jpg.to/ http://3.jpg.to/ http://3.1.jpg.to/ http://3.14.jpg.to/ http://3.141.jpg.to/ http://3.1415.jpg.to/ http://3.14159.jpg.to/ http://3.141592.jpg.to/ http://3.14159265.jpg.to/ http://3.141592653.jpg.to/ http://3.1415926535.jpg.to/ The number of references to pi seems to decrease as the precision increases.

  • by keithgibson on 11/20/11, 5:11 AM

  • by ck2 on 11/19/11, 10:48 PM

    This is the "I'm feeling lucky" of google images eh?

    http://gigawatt.jpg.to/

  • by revorad on 11/19/11, 11:28 PM

    This is nice. It will be more fun if you show a different image on each reload.

  • by pluies on 11/19/11, 11:40 PM

    That's awesome :)

    And it's not even limited to jpg, cf. http://drumroll.jpg.to/

  • by kgermino on 11/19/11, 10:48 PM

    Very cool.

    Top result in Google Images? Looks like it anyway.

    Thanks for giving me something to pay with while waiting on the slowest server in the world at work :)

  • by hammock on 11/19/11, 11:55 PM

    Note that you can put in spaces by using dots or %2b

    http://large.gorilla.eating.a.taco.jpg.to/

    http://baby%2belephant.jpg.to/

  • by Zirro on 11/20/11, 12:58 PM

    I'm going to be "that" guy this time and tell you that the IMG-element is a single tag, and should be used without a "</img>" at the end :)

    Other than that, I'm liking this and looking forward to the extra parameters.

  • by civilian on 11/20/11, 12:02 AM

  • by alpb on 11/19/11, 11:06 PM

    I'd rather prefer it to directly stream the image, not an <img src='...'/> to somewhere else. This version is not useful for anybody.

  • by edd on 11/20/11, 12:49 PM

    As 'cute' as this is please find a different API to use or at least find a way to attribute where you are _stealing_ the images from and ensure that the owners of the images are happy with you using the images.

    Just because an image is on the internet does not mean you can reproduce it. I ran a couple of words I knew return copyrighted images and sure enough they come up.

  • by speedemin on 11/20/11, 2:37 AM

    http://crazy.jpg.to/ doesn't work for some reason.

  • by kloncks on 11/19/11, 11:11 PM

    Not working for me? I keep getting this: Sorry, image not found. Please try other keywords.

  • by ff0066mote on 11/19/11, 11:31 PM

  • by madiator on 11/20/11, 8:28 AM

    I thought this was pretty cool and so shared the link with my friend, who asked me - 'so whats the point?'. And then I was like http://notsure.jpg.to

  • by program on 11/20/11, 12:31 PM

    This is a little bookmarklet for you. Select some text in a page then run it. It will open a new window {selected text}.jpg.to.

       javascript:(function(){var A='';if(window.getSelection) A=window.getSelection().toString();else if(document.getSelection) A=document.getSelection().toString();else if(document.selection) A=document.selection.createRange().text;A=A.replace(/\s+/,'-');if(A===''||!/^[a-z0-9_\-]+$/i.test(A))A='try-again';window.open('http://'+encodeURIComponent(A.toLowerCase())+'.jpg.to');}());
    not tested at all.

  • by wicknicks on 11/20/11, 12:39 AM

    Very cool stuff. Interesting progression:

    http://1.jpg.to/

    http://11.jpg.to/

    http://111.jpg.to/

    http://1111.jpg.to/

    http://11111.jpg.to/

    http://111111.jpg.to/ (I was hoping to get something related to November/11/2011 here).

  • by _gd3l on 11/19/11, 11:54 PM

    I like this a lot. Placehold.it features would be nice, too. so like, if I wanted just a picture of Bruce Willis: http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/

    But then if I needed a 500x500 picture of Bruce Willis, because who doesn't, I could go to http://bruce_wilis.jpg.to/500x500

    Fun little app. Nice work.

  • by henshinger on 11/20/11, 12:13 PM

    http://meme.jpg.to/(I don't have any idea what this meme is.) Also, I want to see the source code. I think it uses the I'm Feeling Lucky page of Google Image API, but I'm a noob, so it would be nice if I could have an idea of how you made that site.

  • by jrockway on 11/20/11, 5:39 AM

    http://toonces.jpg.to/ works as expected.

  • by dylangs1030 on 11/20/11, 1:52 AM

    I like the idea, and it works. Here's two constructive concerns:

    1. Can you make this faster to type than a browser extension that searches from the address bar (or in Chrome's case, omnibox)?

    2. How do you account for false positives, like a picture that doesn't match the word?

  • by tikhonj on 11/19/11, 10:45 PM

    Very simple and very amusing. Or maybe I'm just easily entertained. It got my gravatar picture when I entered my full name, which was cool.

    hn.jpg.to, on the other hand, is probably not related to hacker news :)

  • by suyash on 11/20/11, 12:09 AM

    This is also very handy that I plan to use: http://www.sencha.com/learn/how-to-use-src-sencha-io/

  • by sanxiyn on 11/20/11, 5:51 AM

  • by codejoust on 11/20/11, 1:28 AM

    Winning: http://chattanooga.jpg.to/ It works pretty well, although there are some oddball results.

  • by guscost on 11/20/11, 4:57 AM

    Unbelievably, you probably want to turn off SafeSearch before letting kids explore the site...

    http://vagina.jpg.to/

  • by solokumba on 11/20/11, 1:09 AM

  • by Wazzup12 on 11/20/11, 5:07 PM

    Imsy (www.imsy.com) offers this same feature in a slightly different way. It lets you send the image as an attachment in iMessage

  • by liedra on 11/20/11, 10:44 AM

    This is a cute service but doesn't handle images that are 404 :( Perhaps it should test for 500 status before displaying?

  • by christos on 11/20/11, 5:27 AM

    Is this using Google Image Search? Isn't it against the terms of use to access it from an interface other than Googles?

  • by awlo on 11/20/11, 7:44 AM

    Fun! It would be nice if the source of the image was given, so credit can be given to the author, if possible.

  • by ThePinion on 11/21/11, 2:42 AM

    I wrote my first and last name (no spaces) and it showed a picture of my cat. I was thoroughly pleased :)

  • by gumba on 11/21/11, 10:09 AM

    Duqu author caught red handed. http://duqu.jpg.to/

  • by johnbatch on 11/20/11, 12:26 AM

    getting an error on http://facebook.jpg.to/

  • by sjwright on 11/20/11, 2:45 AM

  • by fsantagonza on 11/27/11, 8:06 PM

  • by mikeflynn on 11/20/11, 7:41 PM

    Cool idea. I immediately tried "boobs" and was not disappointed.

  • by aawc on 11/20/11, 12:34 AM

    I see changes coming in as I try more things. Good job folkster!

  • by tathagatadg on 11/19/11, 11:51 PM

    anybody tried "hahahah" or "lala"? ... those were the first two I tried and it gave a totally wrong impression of what the service is all about :D

  • by Neodudeman on 11/19/11, 11:45 PM

    I think http://ethan.jpg.to/ is my favorite.

  • by dschoon on 11/20/11, 1:12 AM

  • by tzs on 11/20/11, 12:37 AM

  • by wahwah on 11/20/11, 12:22 AM

  • by leak on 11/19/11, 10:09 PM

    I typed my name "dani" and it turns out I'm a hot chic! I knew it!

  • by Calamitous on 11/20/11, 1:28 AM

    Very, very nice. :)

  • by fsantagonza on 11/27/11, 8:06 PM

    sun

  • by folkster on 11/19/11, 9:58 PM

    e.g. apple.jpg.to

  • by dicroce on 11/20/11, 12:30 AM

    hot.jpg.to

  • by diamondhead on 11/20/11, 6:11 AM

    Is there any way to flag a photo? I just made a search for a dog type and found an inappropriate photo unfortunately...

  • by rewiter2011 on 11/20/11, 2:04 AM

    looks like a catchall apache url rewrite rule with some rewriting voodoo to corresponding google image hits, pretty lame imho

    also the dns is not setup corectly to handle spaces in domains mentioned here

  • by grobo on 11/19/11, 11:38 PM

    ha..i like it. it just searches the internet for images with that search term.