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My story is the same! Also, when I want colouring pictures for my kids, DDG just lets met tap them and print them. That is nolonger possible using Google since
by teekert 7y ago
My story is the same!
Also, when I want colouring pictures for my kids, DDG just lets met tap them and print them. That is nolonger possible using Google since some months. I also very much appreciate the code snippets when (already started typing "Googling"!) Searching for code related things.
- bloodorange 7y agoI recently had to search for something similar to this: march 12 2019 + 366 days and DuckDuckGo gave me exactly what I wanted while Google gave me not-very-useful results.
- schoen 7y agoThe date command can also answer this question: $ date -d 'march 12 2019 + 366 days' Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 PDT 2020
- skratlo 7y agopure gold buddy, thanks for this
- tus88 7y agoI starting thinking about the Python equivalent of this and it was disgusting.
- michael_j_ward 7y agoThis? $ python -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.date(2019, 3, 12) + datetime.timedelta(days=366))' 2020-03-12
- fouc 7y agoRuby isn't much better ruby -e "require 'date'; puts (Date.parse('march 12 2019') + 366)" 2020-03-12
- dredmorbius 7y agoFor GNU date, yes. BSD not so much (default on MacOS). MacOS$ date -d 'now + 30 days' usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]GNU$ date -d 'now +30 days' GNU$ date -u -d 'now +30 days' Sun Apr 5 18:55:12 UTC 2020 (In BSD date, the '-d' argument "Set the kernel's value for daylight saving time.")
- thewebcount 7y agoassuming you're on Unix
- ferzul 7y agoyou could be running gnu/linux or windows with msys, neither of which are unix
- zaat 7y agoIf you are on Windows, (or if you are on Linux but for some reason still runs) in PowerShell: > (Get-Date).AddDays(365)
- ringshall 7y agoOr excel, rc[-1]+366, assuming you typed in the date you want in the cell to the left...
- savanaly 7y agoI literally do this with google all the time though (my girlfriend like us to celebrate N * 100 anniversaries). Every hundred days or so I go to google and type "500 days after [date]" or something to that effect and it works. It was the first thing I tried, it works reliably every time, and it's google providing the result in the results page, which is better than a link to a website that would do it for me. What query did you do on google that didn't give you so good results?
- LMMojo 7y agoBeing the socially inept person I am, I would find this exhausting.
- incompatible 7y agoDepends what "celebrate" entails. The calculation of dates is straightforward at least.
- bloodorange 7y agoThe example I gave above should suffice to demonstrate the differences. Just copy the second line and paste it into both search engines.
- igravious 7y agoSo, to be clear, Google is lamer than DDG because it supports the natural language expression `X days after M D Y` but does not support the mathematical `M D Y + X days` I guess Google has figured out with its trillions(?) of queries how humans search and not how nerds search.
- Naracion 7y agoWhy not be more inclusive and enable both how humans search as well as how nerds search?
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- a_t48 7y agoI just pop open wolframalpha for anything that needs more meaning to it. I'll keep DDG in mind for next time.
- Frost1x 7y agoWA is great for certain more complex mathematical or informational queries but usually requires me to dig around to find syntax since the NLP isn't as fluid as I'd like it to be. I basically view it as a slightly more friendly/natural than traditional Mathematica interface.
- lancesells 7y agoIf you use DDG as your universal search but want to go to WolframAlpha for your query: x + y !wa
- oska 7y agoTry answering this one without looking it up: February 29 2020 + 365 days
- lobotryas 7y agoPretty sure that’s because google got hit with a lawsuit about hot linking. DDG will suffer the same fate once they get big (and rich) enough.
- minikites 7y agoI can't say for sure but I bet that's a problem they would love to have.
- robotnikman 7y agoYep, Getty Images sued them and Google had to remove the view images button, making the process of viewing the source image more difficult and convoluted. I've now resorted to using DDG anytime I need to do an image search, and have been using it more and more myself when searching for anything related to IT or programming.
- SeekingMeaning 7y agoFor those interested there’s an open-source Chrome extension that brings back the View Image button: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhcelnjdmblfmjabdeclccemkghjk?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/view-image/jpcmhce... https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage
- gman83 7y agoAwesome, thanks!
- dublinben 7y agoYandex Image search is also very good, with none of the annoying limitations that Google has introduced. There also seems to be less Pinterest spam as well. https://yandex.com/images/ https://yandex.com/images/
- dredmorbius 7y agoPinterest spam in DDG is a major annoyance, thou directly viewable images compensates somewhat.
- HenryBemis 7y agoRegarding coloring pictures, I use coloring.ws (not affiliated in any way with the site, just a happy uncle)
- eindiran 7y agoNow "google" is a common enough word for generic online searches that the sentence "I googled 'australian licorice' using DuckDuckGo's image search" doesn't sound weird to me. See definition 2, under the transitive verb form of the second etymology: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/google#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/google#English
- buzzerbetrayed 7y agoThat still sounds weird to me. I obviously understand what you mean, but I still don't like the idea of saying "I googled x on DuckDuckGo".
- rapnie 7y agoYou can say "Have a look, I just duck this up.."
- james_s_tayler 7y ago"I'll just duck on to the web and check"