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[–] 163 points 1 week ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 91 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    DDG is just a people pleaser. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    I’m pretty sure it’s just a fuzzy context match.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Right but I don't know specifically how the matching is done so I was just funny that the only example I tried seemed to lean into metric and deride imperial. I'm not saying that's actually the case it just was funny to me that I got that result.

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    [–] 30 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    Its not a joke! It actually works!

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    [–] 20 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    I'm convinced the Imperial system is like those languages they make up for fantasy novels. I've only ever witnessed it in D&D and it seems impractical to learn for the day to day.

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    [–] 16 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I don't know why you're all complaining. 1 mile = 3 muricaball fields = 24.7 Dodge™ Chargers = 2245.45 sausages = 3 thumbs-up (sponsored by Exxon and Doritos).

    Its very simple.

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    [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    I've been told the DDG results are the same as Google, yet every time I compare they are quite different.

    I've been using DDG since Trump's first term, when Google started manipulating COVID search results if memory serves.

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    [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    It's not fun that you have to use multiple search engines now. I mainly use Qwant and I qwant to like it but wow is it terrible.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Here’s what I like about it:

    But also turning off AI and location.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Now do imaginary units

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    How can you say its superior when it wont even tell me how many washing machines are in a giraffe.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Seems useful for those cases you don't know what a furlong even measures.

    I wonder how well it handles ounces.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    works, but this time it's an ai thingy

    Works too, but it's some AI thingy not the native search (which also uses AI so maybe it doesn't really matter).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    One spawns a pre-coded widget with obvious math equations inside, the other puts out values in a way you can't tell if it calculated stuff or made it all up. I am sure it triggers a side-calculator too, but I can't know if it exists, and if it was properly triggered this time after they presented the output like an answer from their Search Assist LLM tool.

    This, and that you get a working multi-unit converter widget you can use again and again without asking DDG once more. I think the old way clearly wins.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Doesn't seem to work for volume, having tried gallons and teaspoons. But it works for length and mass/weight.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    its not google or Microsoft. that alone makes ddg far superior.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Used this all the time until I recently stumbled across the cli program units

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Now that's obviously just plain incorrect. Everyone knows that real units are measured in bananas.

    60 feet = 102.857 bananas

    https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/60-feet-to-bananas

    🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌

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