A Google Search Feature I'd Like to See
Currently, Google will do certain calculations, conversions and information look-ups when you type them into the search box.
For instance, you can ask it to convert pints into cups, or miles to kilometers.
There are similar features for getting the population of cities, the current weather, movie listings and word definitions.
I’d like to see Google do some date math so that I can ask it things like “today + 14 weeks” and it would give me information about that day.
Perhaps there’s another search engine or tool out there that does this already? If you know of one, please post about it in the comments.
GNU date(1) from coreutils supports things like:
date -d “2 days ago” date -d ”-4 days” date -d ”+16 hours”I can’t find the set of accepted syntax documented anywhere other than the source, but perhaps I’m not looking hard enough.
Also, that blank comment above? That’s the big “I’m too stupid to figure out comment forms on the first try” banner that I fly everywhere.
Sorry.
— Gnomon Apr 24, 08:42 PM #
