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Google search's new basic calculator

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Re: Google search's new basic calculator

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Interesting, works for:- http://www.google.com/search?q=9/10 But not:- http://www.google.com/search?q=9/11 Also seems like it could be much smaller, since it's following this increasing trend to devote less and less screen real-estate to search results.

My guess is 9/11 was if-ed out; if someone types that into a query, one most likely wants to see results related to WTC attack.

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

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post #21

Interesting, works for:- http://www.google.com/search?q=9/10 But not:- http://www.google.com/search?q=9/11 Also seems like it could be much smaller, since it's following this increasing trend to devote less and less screen real-estate to search results.

My guess is 9/11 was if-ed out; if someone types that into a query, one most likely wants to see results related to WTC attack.

They could have generalized that based on result CTR.

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

#25

Link that works for people with non-English Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator (The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)

ha, I wondered why I got the old interface when my normal searches give me the new one;) I have chrome set to go to the English site;)

Thanks.

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

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Link that works for people with non-English Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=calculator (The link is setting the language to English for just that search.)

Thanks, I wonder why they would only enable this for English searches?

They always test new stuff on their English sites first.

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

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Interesting how Microsoft and Google have different ideas of how percentage key (%) should work. Relevant post by Raymond Chen: “How does the [Windows] calculator percent key work?” http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/10/70474... Implementing % button, Google chose an approach which is more mathematically sensible but arguably less obvious to users. For Google, 10% just an alias for 0.1. This means th…

The way Microsoft did it is the same way most physical calculators I've seen work.
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