I personally use Kagi, and monetary conversion works, math ops work, only missing stocks
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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I miss just being able to type 23 * 3 + 210 * 2 into the search bar and getting a answer.
Might be an unpopular opinion but your computer and phone has a calculator app for this. Using a search engine for this is just overkill.
I tried both DDG and Brave search and got 489. The strange thing is Startpage didn't give a result even though it uses Google results.
In linux, open a terminal, and type "python". There you have a great calculator. You can create a shortcut to speed it up. Pretty sure there is a module for stock stalking too.
SearXNG can do basic math and conversions, I don't know about stock prices, it could be in the settings, which have a lot of options
DDG can do lots of conversions and translations. But if you use linux and KDE, the start menu's search bar does that too, and it is extensible with plugins
DDG should do the currency conversions. But, you know your phone has a calculator that doesn't send data anywhere, right? Why wait for the server to do math when you can do it all in your hand?
On my phone I just use my calculator, it's when I'm at my PC
Currently I just open the calculator, but that's annoying and then another app that's open, where I'm usually already in a web browser.
And for currency conversion I don't have a app on my PC, nor do I want to install one if the browser can just do it
DDG is the search engine, just change your engine with the drop down.
If you are using iOS, the keyboard does that
Thankfully I'm not using iOS, trying to move away from big tech not just deGoogle