Currency conversion on Google.co.uk/Google.co m (Currency Converters in general)

Member Name: MonkeyFaceMuppet

Product:	Currency Converters in general
Date:	29/09/06 (152 review reads)
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Advantages: It is unbelievably quick and easy

Disadvantages: Rates are provided by Citibank but Google cannot guarantee the accuracy so don't use it for trading

This is an example of one of the many features that the Google search engine has, that people may not realise exists.

Forget going to xe.com or similar and fiddling about with drop-down menus for the currency, simply go to Google and type in “147 euros in pounds” – for example. Google works it out and gives you the answer: “147 Euros = 98.6319573 British pounds” and how’s that for accuracy!

This even works when you don’t know the currency of the country you’re interested in, one of the examples given by Google is “currency of Brazil in Malaysian money” which will tell you “1 Brazil real = 1.68284213 Malaysian ringgits”. Educational, too!

A few more examples are here:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#currency

I hope this makes your conversions easier.

Summary: Currency conversion on Google doesn't seem to be very well-known, but it should be.