Hey, you never know when thats' gonna change. |
I've passed this on to the appropriate team. I don't think that exchange rate will change any time soon, but who knows :-). |
Wow, they were fast John not the same result anymore. |
Rohit If you click the link it's still there.
Interestingly if I go to .com I get the exchange rate CAD – USD and if I go to .co.uk I get CAD-GBP. It doesn't seem to work with any other currency. |
I still see it here in the states when I change to Google.ca and type in "canadian dollar". |
Probably takes a bit of time to roll this out to all of the data centers... |
Oh it works with just "dollar" when searching on Google.ca.
Update: Found a flaw with british pound too when searching for GBP. http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=GBP&meta=
Japanese Yen "jpy" in Google Japan. http://www.google.co.jp/search?source=ig&hl=ja&rlz=1G1GGLQ_JAJP271&q=jpy&meta= |
Bad: If you search on google.ch for GPB it converts from British Pounds to the €uro instead of CHF which would be the currency of Switzerland.
Only if you enter CHF right behind the other currency you get what is usefull. |
I m sure the above 15 billion market company such as Google had to do heavy investments to come up with this genuinely simplistic equation ;) |
The perfect SERP (search engine result) ... Highly relevant, there's no doubt about that ....
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I think it's just hardcoded such that although it converts to the "home currency," it ignores US Dollar because...hey, you're in the US, right? For example: google.ca or google.co.uk produce no conversion when you type in US Dollar. Shouldn't it convert to GBP or CAD when you do that? |
I guess the coin has finally reached parity with the note. |
Colin It wasn't doing that earlier with GBP... maybe it's a feature they're rolling out across currencies (I mean converting depending on which site your on, not converting to the same currency :P) |
It depends on the localised version, it's quite neat feature that if I enter US Dollar into Google.co.uk it tells me the conversion, although this is obviously a bug if I enter sterling into UK and it tries converting it. |