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Using Google As a Currency Converter
I used to always go over to Yahoo! Finance Currency when I wanted to know the exchange rate of different currencies. I never used a direct link, so I spent a few minutes clicking on the links from the Yahoo! homepage, and then I would finally get to my destination (after taking some time to read the other articles) a few minutes later. If only I knew then what I know now, I could have saved probably an hour or so of my life. I’ll even tell you without requiring you to work for me for an hour. What a deal!
To convert currency in Google, all you have to do is type in the currency you want to go from, to the currency you want to go to. Here is an example:
With that search, you get results along the line of the following, depending of course upon whether the dollar has gotten stronger or weaker since the time of this posting.
As you can see, 10 Euros will buy you approximately $15.50 in United States Dollars. There are other ways to convert currency. You can try the following queries, which all work great:
- canadian money in australian money will show you what 1 Canadian Dollar is equal to in Australian Dollars.
- 100 british pounds in malaysian money will show you that at the time of writing 100 Pounds are equal to ~628 Malaysian Ringgits. Ringgits has a nice ring to it, don’t you think! Sorry, I won’t try that again.
- 1 GPB in USD will show you what 1 Great British Pound is worth in US Dollars. This is helpful if you already know the common abbreviation of currencies. Not sure what those abbreviations are? You can learn them here!
Here’s one of my personal favorites: Let’s say you’re traveling to Brazil and want to compare the price that they pay for their “green” automobile fuel in comparison to what we pay for our regular unleaded gas here in the USA. All you have to do is type the following into a Google search box:
You will get results that are along the line of these:
Thus, if you see a price cheaper than R$1.77, you know that Brazil is getting a better deal on their automobile fuel.
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