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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
by 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 agoAn 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.