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.

"120 cm in inches" (with space) works.

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

The link, as posted, worked fine for me.

It have me the meter to inch conversion. Not the cm to inch conversion.

How many inches does it yield?

47.2441

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.

Is the answer not supposed to be ~47.24 inches?

It parses the request as 120m for me (and presumably the submitter), resulting in 4724 inches rather than 47.24.

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).

To me, google shows a conversion tool: "120 metres = 4724,409 inches".

Note that it confused the unit cm vs m.

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.

If you are KDE Plasma user, <Alt-Space> 120cm [to in]

'100 usd to eur' also working.

> 120 metres = 4724.409 inches

Was this posted to show that Google answers queries like this? Many search engines have this feature.

no, it was to show that the answers to basic conversions were completely incorrect