http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2008/04/17/imperialism-metric-centricity-and-live-search.aspxI'm a child of a mixed up time when it comes to measures and the likes. I am feet and inches tall, stones and pounds heavy, when it's cold outside, it's below zero degrees, but when it's hot, it's in the 80s. I learned small measurement in mms and cms,en-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2008/04/17/imperialism-metric-centricity-and-live-search.aspx#3038715Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:00:48 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3038715Ewan<p>Actually, someone pointed out that Google has a calculator where if you type &quot;inch to cm&quot; it will show up with the answer. The fact that I didn't discover that but I did happen upon the Windows Live search version, just proves that Live Search must be easier to use ;-)</p> <p>On a subnote, though - both allow you to put numbers in there too... so in Live Search if you enter &quot;6 ft m&quot; it will tell you that 6 feet = 1.8288 metres ...</p> http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2008/04/17/imperialism-metric-centricity-and-live-search.aspx#3039042Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:54:03 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3039042Quikboy<P>I looked at both searches, and they both offer that. Including actual unit converting. And while I did recognize Live Search as probably the first to offer that, Google does more unit calculations. </P> <P>Like gallons to ounces.</P> <P>Chains to micrometers.</P> <P>Other not so obvious units like that. Of course, I could go to a unit converter site, but the search engine itself is quite handy. I'll still use Live Search for most of my searches, but Live Search really needs to offer and beat all these Google Web search features and do more if they want to get users to adopt Live:</P> <P><A href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator" target=_new rel=nofollow>http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator</A></P>