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I use DDG as my default and rarely use !g. My only wish is that DDG had better “immediate results” like Google, where if I am looking for a conversion or a time

by voisin 4y ago

I use DDG as my default and rarely use !g. My only wish is that DDG had better “immediate results” like Google, where if I am looking for a conversion or a time in a different city, it just displayed the result rather than me having to go to one of the first results and type in the desired conversion there. I love how Google does that, but hate everything else Google does so it isn’t enough to cause me to switch back.

bstpierre 4y ago
I've been on ddg for years, have it defaulted in all my browsers/machines, and I can't remember the last time I used !g. Not sure what you mean about immediate results though... if I search for, say, "10C in F" I get "10 Celsius = 50 Fahrenheit" at the top of the page. And "time in mumbai" gives me "7:37 AM" plus the offset from UTC and the date. Also "weather in chicago". Same for conversions of lb/kg, mph/kmh, and some other units I just tried, as well as currencies. But either it doesn't do mpg<->L/100km or I'm formatting the search wrong. It also doesn't answer "hello in french" with an immediate translation like !g does. But I'm ok with missing translations because languages that I want to look up are in wordreference, are easy to make shortcuts for, and generally have better translations and more thorough info. When I do have to use google directly I sometimes find it _harder_ to get results because it doesn't just show some links and summaries, it seems to want to try to give me "solutions" which aren't always quite what I want. I've been told the results get better the more you use it (ie. the more info you feed to the machine, it learns what you want) but I almost always get what I need on the first attempt searching with ddg and usually within the first few results. If it's not there, my experience has been that I'm not going to find it with !g either. (Usually something to do with really obscure programming problems or error messages.)
- pwpw 4y ago
  An example of where it's lacking in immediate results is searching for Tottenham. DDG provides relevant news articles and a box for the city itself. Google provides the result of the most recent match for Spurs as well as upcoming matches.
pydry 4y ago
I kind of wish somebody would do a command line app for these things. Currency conversions, time in x place, weather, unit conversions, date diffing, etc. Most of it could even be done offline.
- samsquire 4y ago
  apt install units $ units You have: 37817.55 per second You want: per day * 3.2674363e+09 / 3.0605034e-10 Or 3,267,436,320 requests per day. I was profiling redis performance, and I got approximately 37817 requests per second for MSET on 8x terminal windows when running redis-benchmark -P 2000 -c 6 -s /var/run/redis/redis-server.sock
- ectopod 4y ago
  KDE KRunner has some of this, though not on the command line. I'd prefer to have a search engine running locally that handled this kind of thing, just because the browser can display richer results.

by voisin 4y ago

bstpierre 4y ago

I've been on ddg for years, have it defaulted in all my browsers/machines, and I can't remember the last time I used !g. Not sure what you mean about immediate results though... if I search for, say, "10C in F" I get "10 Celsius = 50 Fahrenheit" at the top of the page. And "time in mumbai" gives me "7:37 AM" plus the offset from UTC and the date. Also "weather in chicago". Same for conversions of lb/kg, mph/kmh, and some other units I just tried, as well as currencies. But either it doesn't do mpg<->L/100km or I'm formatting the search wrong. It also doesn't answer "hello in french" with an immediate translation like !g does. But I'm ok with missing translations because languages that I want to look up are in wordreference, are easy to make shortcuts for, and generally have better translations and more thorough info. When I do have to use google directly I sometimes find it _harder_ to get results because it doesn't just show some links and summaries, it seems to want to try to give me "solutions" which aren't always quite what I want. I've been told the results get better the more you use it (ie. the more info you feed to the machine, it learns what you want) but I almost always get what I need on the first attempt searching with ddg and usually within the first few results. If it's not there, my experience has been that I'm not going to find it with !g either. (Usually something to do with really obscure programming problems or error messages.)

pwpw 4y ago
An example of where it's lacking in immediate results is searching for Tottenham. DDG provides relevant news articles and a box for the city itself. Google provides the result of the most recent match for Spurs as well as upcoming matches.

pydry 4y ago

I kind of wish somebody would do a command line app for these things. Currency conversions, time in x place, weather, unit conversions, date diffing, etc. Most of it could even be done offline.

samsquire 4y ago
apt install units $ units You have: 37817.55 per second You want: per day * 3.2674363e+09 / 3.0605034e-10 Or 3,267,436,320 requests per day. I was profiling redis performance, and I got approximately 37817 requests per second for MSET on 8x terminal windows when running redis-benchmark -P 2000 -c 6 -s /var/run/redis/redis-server.sock
ectopod 4y ago
KDE KRunner has some of this, though not on the command line. I'd prefer to have a search engine running locally that handled this kind of thing, just because the browser can display richer results.