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I 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
by savanaly 7y ago
I 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?
- igravious 7y agoSure, nothing stopping them, and I'm not arguing against that.
- Vinnl 7y agoInterestingly it seems that DDG also supports "human" search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=500+days+after+march+12+2019&t=canonical&ia=answer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=500+days+after+march+12+2019&t=can... (Also interesting that you can infer that I'm on Ubuntu from my sharing of the search URL, though.)
- ferzul 7y agoevery nerd is a human