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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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post #15

What a complete load of shit. You have to actually click the numbers, you can't use your computer's keyboard. Google, I am disappoint.

You can type your calculation as a google query and you'll get the result. This calculator is designed for people looking for a mouse- / touch-based UI.

Note that the iPad doesn't ship with a calculator app.

(Equally annoying, Android doesn't have a simple stopwatch/timer built in.)

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

#33
Unfortunately if you use google without javascript this is a pain as it does not fall back to the inline calculator.

If anyone knows or figures out a url option to make it do the old inline math, please let me know ?

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

#39
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.

You can force a calculator result with an equals sign:

http://www.google.com/search?q=9/11=

Re: Google search's new basic calculator

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can type your calculation as a google query and you'll get the result. This calculator is designed for people looking for a mouse- / touch-based UI.

I'll admit that as I'm using my laptop touch devices didn't occur to me, just tried it on my phone and actually it works really well with touch. But when on a non-touch device, even if you click on the calculator, focus remains on the search input, that seems like a massive UX failure to me.

So given this new information, what percentage of a load of shit would you now say it is?
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