How does google search get to the point where this kind of stuff can be parsed incorrectly? How did it even arrive at this reading of the query??? AaaAAa
fell@ma.fellr.net
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:08 +0000
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nicoduck@chaos.socia..
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phessler@bsd.network
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:08 +0000
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immibis@social.immib..
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:10 +0000
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@benjojo I had one where it correctly interpreted fm as femtometers but then did the conversion backwards.
vic@seal.cafe
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:11 +0000
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@benjojo they decided it was more important to shove all their resources into censorship and promoting lies than things that actually benefit normal people
meowski@fluf.club
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:23 +0000
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@benjojo you're doing it wrong. "us" is not microseconds. that is being misinterpreted as a typo for seconds. try it with a mu character.
it's also conversion "to" not conversion "as"
1000 μs to milliseconds gives the correct answer. or just write out microseconds
benjojo
replied 05 Feb 2024 19:48 +0000
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@meowski@fluf.club this absolutely used to work, "us" is common non unicode shorthand for micro. It is frustrating to see these quality of life backslide
srslypascal@chaos.so..
replied 05 Feb 2024 17:33 +0000
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Foritus@toot.dusepo...
replied 05 Feb 2024 18:03 +0000
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@benjojo Sometime in the past few years it feels like Google replaced their probably-out-of-control bundle of parsers and state machines for "smart" queries like this and swapped in something a bit more like an ML classifier stack. It is objectively worse for most things in my experience, but I bet it requires fewer engineers to maintain (as if search was not a fountain of cash for them lol). Maybe the AI classified "u" as a typo and big-brained its way to failure 🙂