{"id":13336,"date":"2005-07-07T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/google-currency-conversion\/"},"modified":"2005-07-07T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:53:00","slug":"google-currency-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/google-currency-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Currency Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#currency\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"google\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/google.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/200-ngultrums-what-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Google Blog<\/i> reports<\/a> that Google&rsquo;s calculator feature now supports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#currency\" target=\"_blank\">currency conversion<\/a>.  This is a pretty useful feature, as it doesn&rsquo;t require you to navigate away from the search page or toolbar, and it allows for plain language searches [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=1+dollar+in+pounds\" target=\"_blank\">1 dollar in pounds<\/a>].  However, sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/ucc\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Universal Currency Converter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/currency?u\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Yahoo!<\/i>&rsquo;s Currency Converter<\/a> are more comprehensive; I found that Google couldn&rsquo;t handle Ukrainian currency, for example [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=1+dollar+in+hryvni\" target=\"_blank\">1 dollar in hryvni<\/a>].<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/google\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">google<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/www\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">www<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/reference\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">reference<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112074078813411888?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Blog reports that Google&rsquo;s calculator feature now supports currency conversion. This is a pretty useful feature, as it doesn&rsquo;t require you to navigate away from the search page or toolbar, and it allows for plain language searches [1 dollar in pounds]. However, sites like The Universal Currency Converter and Yahoo!&rsquo;s Currency Converter are more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/07\/google-currency-conversion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Currency Conversion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}