Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine

• 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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