Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine

• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use noai.ddg and get the converter thingy

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t get it for football fields or other ‘anything but metric’ units which is what I was going for.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      theres one for olympic sized swimming pool which is a substitute for volume.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oic, yeah. When I try to convert “football fields” into meters, it gets it confused with sqft.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A football field is 100 yards, so just try “100 yards to real units” if you’re genuinely curious.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use noai.ddg and don’t get the converter thingy.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m getting it intermittently too, for what it’s worth. Depending heavily on the unit. For example, I tried and realized “100 yards in real units” doesn’t work, but “100 feet in real units” does.

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      • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t want to ask it yards. I want to ask it in ‘anything but metric’ units like football fields and olympic sized swimming pools.

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    • bigbangdangler@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really curious what the pattern is here. I don’t get the converter on noai either.

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  • bumblefumble@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    120 yards really, the end zones are part of the field.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, but:

      When the “football field” is used as unit of measurement, it is usually understood to mean 100 yards (91.44 m),

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