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SelkcipSeriously, what the fuck happened to google search?
sub_o@selkcip seems to happen to cm too.
Brb, gonna ask Google how long is my peepee (spoiler, it’s 9842.52 inches)
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸@selkcip I'm 98% sure javascript is involved
Marc "ACAB" Godin@selkcip No, see, Big Metric has been shrinking our millimetres a little bit each year since the 1950s, so now you can fit a lot more into an inch.
(Edit: I mean, Big Metric has been growing our millimetres, I went the wrong direction with my math)
wouterla@selkcip Turns out LLMs don't give quite the same reliability in results as human made and tested code? I'm surprised.
eduqate@selkcip Cannot replicate on a Mac/Safari, .com and .co.uk
Katzentratschen
Paper ClipAt least the "leagues to smoot" conversion seems to be working correctly.
Moved to: @selkcip Ruth Porat happened.
Marc Etienne@selkcip sure, it can't tell the difference between millimeters and meters any more, but at least the formula is still working.
The enshittification creeps onward.
drawnonglass@selkcip I got the same error, but it disappears with a space between 250 and mm. duckduckgo understands it both ways
Mensch Antimeier
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@selkcip I've been noticing this a lot recently too. Very frustrating.
Graydon@selkcip The vast chill slow intelligence that is Google the corporation thinks search is a revenue sink and sees no reason to spend the infinite money it would take to defend it from SEO, which is to say, Google's own advertising business.
When Google became an advertising company, it began a transition away from "build uniquely useful services" to being a malware company, thereby consigning the uniquely useful services to the pit.
Ads are malware. The _idea_ of ads is malware.
Adam
Spiky Caterpillar@abraunbeck @graydon @selkcip The walled stuff often seems to be going the other way IME - they serve up a regwall-free version for Google so they'll get search hits, then demand real users create an account/log in/accept cookies to see stuff (e.g. FB, Quora, Medline, several news conglomerates, Pinterest iirc)
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
Stefan Scholl@selkcip the managers who were skeptical of fuzzy logic are now embracing AI.
Benji Smith@selkcip I've been seeing this happening for over a month, I don't know how it hasn't been fixed yet
ari 
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@selkcip I just tried it myself. Frak.
(Leif Lindholm) has moved@selkcip
Drinking their own LLM-onade?
Drinking their own LLM-onade?
Davide Di Stefano
@selkcip if you add a space between the number and the unit, it works
Max Leibman has moved!@selkcip Meters have better SEO that millimeters.
Slyphic@selkcip When I did my annual casting about for search that doesn't suck this year, I signed up for a trial account with Kagi. Which appears to be a filtered front end for Bing with vague AI components and a frankly nonviable cost per search model, but it does what it says.
I had forgotten what good search results look like. Not 200k pages of garbage results but maybe 10 of actually relevant pages created by humans for humans.
I keep waffling on buying the cheapest tier of searches/month.
Andrew Eisenberg
Albert Hickey
VioletFor me, "250mm in inches" works, "250mm to inches" is parsed incorrectly.
LeRoc@selkcip Exaggerating the length in inches is a very masculine thing to do.
Warner Crocker
Anne Ominousdunno. ppl are gonnal laugh but i use bing.. the main reason is that google gives me a bunch of impossible to solve captchas bc i'm on a VPN
Terveys-turvanen 😷🇫🇮@selkcip I recommend Qalculate for your everyday calculation and unit conversion needs!
❤️ https://qalculate.github.io/ ❤️
It can solve equations, too.
Reay Jespersen@selkcip layoffs
Andy McCall 
@selkcip it's mocking you for still using Imperial.
Rightly so too 😂
SoNick_RND
Josh Ourisman 
@selkcip it was secretly taken over by math teachers who are pissed that we all now have calculators on us all the time.
charli (they)@selkcip capitalism happened.
Gabor@selkcip at least it's not 250 million meters :D
Mullaney
@AlexBlock has moved@selkcip mm stands for metric metres, so as not to be confused for imperial meters....
Christian Willmes@selkcip I guess you saw this, but I wil say it anyway to avoid FUD. It says 250 Meter not Millimeters in the Form, so the computation result is correct but the parsing of mm (parsed it as meters, not as Millimeters) is incorrect.
OliverUv@selkcip to Google, search result quality is a cost centre / loss leader.
Search results compete with ads for user clicks. Google needs the search results to be good enough to make you use their service, but shitty enough that you'd rather click an ad.
Saint Palermo@selkcip Thanks to AI …. 😖
JLPhoton@selkcip Working fine for me on Ubuntu with Firefox
Petesmom *has moved*
Amber@selkcip corporatism
Robert Boler@selkcip No idea—haven’t used #Google aside from rare exceptions in years.
#BraveSearch is stellar now, with smarter and more attributable #ai summaries than anyone else is doing, and now independent photo search, too. Can’t recommend switching to @brave enough.
We Played Some Games@selkcip Looks like they're having trouble with the absence of the space between the '0' and 'mm'.
Dimensions are correctly written with a space in-between the number and the unit of measurement. But, this is no excuse for Google not being able to infer that.
I'm with ya, I too write it without the space.
Shadowbottle
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@selkcip "eh, who cares about the results, *how were the ads?*"
Dominik Janiec@selkcip I saw this too many times... now I'm using DuckDuckGo in my not-work-related FireFox browser for such calculations 🙃
a Witty Name@selkcip possibly it is a parsing issue.
“250 mm to inches” will return the correct answer.
Instead of inserting a “space” it is overwriting the first “m” with a “space”.
Σ(i³) = (Σi)²@SvenGeier @selkcip
I see. It calculates correctly for “251mm to inches”
Edit: so the error only comes up with numbers divisible by 10 starting with 230.
Somehow I’m expecting the error to start after 255.
@selkcip This gets wild: try again with 220mm -- that works. 230mm does not. Also, the same 250mm that incorrectly parses to "250m" parses correctly if you convert to feet instead of inches.
pocket_@selkcip they said ChatGPT is going to destroy Google search. Now Google search is copying ChatGPT and giving wrong answers
John