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geoah
> 120 metres = 4724.409 inches
sottol
"120 cm in inches" (with space) works.

Annoying. AI feature, I assumed, but now you're just always second guessing.

ChrisGranger
The link, as posted, worked fine for me.
chrismcb
It have me the meter to inch conversion. Not the cm to inch conversion.
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hex4def6
seems like 1-106cm is fine, and then it stays incorrect up until 199cm, at which point it's correct again.

Truly a bit of a wtf.

leoedin
Google search has got noticeably worse recently. Unit conversions (like the linked one) have been broken for weeks. They got rid of the “map” link for a while - so suddenly there was no easy way to search for a business and then view it on a map. They messed around with product search to make it less useful. I suppose this is a case of product managers justifying their existence by changing things.
hildenae
Is the answer not supposed to be ~47.24 inches?
ChrisGranger
Yeah, I'm not really sure why people are talking like this feature on Google isn't working. We must be missing something... (unless it was a transient bug).
fgeiger
To me, google shows a conversion tool: "120 metres = 4724,409 inches".

Note that it confused the unit cm vs m.

plorkyeran
It parses the request as 120m for me (and presumably the submitter), resulting in 4724 inches rather than 47.24.
dc3k
I used Bing’s co-pilot the other day to ask “if I travel 1km in 6 minutes how many kph am I going?” and it told me that I would be travelling at 600 kilometres per hour.
ChrisGranger
Was this posted to show that Google answers queries like this? Many search engines have this feature.
rvnx
no, it was to show that the answers to basic conversions were completely incorrect
dontdieych
If you are KDE Plasma user, <Alt-Space> 120cm [to in]

'100 usd to eur' also working.