Comments on: Google Currency Converter, Revisited

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:18:36 +0000

I wonder how/when they update the currency rates (hourly/daily/weekly). Do they access some global currency rate database? Units of measure are constant, but currency rates are always in a state of flux…

By: Crediteria.com

Crediteria.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:03:21 +0000

This posting reminds me just how depressing it is to be a Canadian earning US dollars.

I just ran the Google currency conversion tool and got this:

1 U.S. dollar = 1.06030034 Canadian dollars

Darn it! The rate was a couple years ago was around 1.6.

The rising Canadian dollar (or is it a falling US dollar?) is killing my business and many other Canadians, especially those in the export industry. Not to mention what was once a booming film industry hear in the Vancouver area. Hollywood production crews would do tons of filming here when the Canadian dollar was at less the 50 cents US.

Oh well, hopefully our powers that be here Canada do something to clobber the Canadian dollar…

By: Creditnine.com

Creditnine.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:07:29 +0000

I have used a few of the currency convertors I might even have one created for our site.

I have used MSN one a lot. Pretty good

By: Smith

Smith — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:33:54 +0000

Pah! Conversions between Yuan and Shekels is easy – Google’s converter is useful for the nasty conversions between metric and english units

By: Punny Money

Punny Money — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:11:01 +0000

Where else could you find out so quickly that 1,000,000 Chinese yuan is equal to 536,049.092 Israeli shekels?

What, this isn’t common knowledge? Our public school system has failed.