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Hi, I just want to show you a neat trick that you can do with Google Search.
You may be aware that if you have some money in another currency, so here's for example
10 New Zealand Dollars, and you want to know how much that's worth in your currency, in
my case Australian currency, you can go to the search here and you can type 10 NZD, New
Zealand Dollars, in AUD. And that's the syntax for it, you simply type
in the first currency, the word in, and then the second currency, so 10 NZ dollars in Australian
dollars. And you can see it comes up on the screen there with a little chart thingy that
says there is 10 New Zealand Dollars equals 7 dollars and 94 cents Australian. So that's
pretty neat. It also gives you a little conversion chart
here, so if I said well what's 45 dollars New Zealand you can see it's automatically
done the conversion for me right there. So that's pretty neat.
And you can do that for pretty much any currency, so if i wanted to know for example, I have
a 1 US dollar here, I could type in there 1 USD in AUD and it would tell me that that's
97 cents Australian. So, that's pretty handy. I happened to do
a little but of travelling last year and I went through my wallet and realised I have
15 New Zealand dollars, I have 1 US dollar, I have 2 Chinese RMB, 2 Singapore dollars,
and 5 Canadian dollars. And I wondered how much all that might come to. And I thought,
well, I could go into Google and could just type in all those things and then I could
add them up later. But you know what, if you simply go into here
and you paste in, or you simply enter in, write in... I just pasted in to make it quicker,
so I've got 1 US dollar, and I put it in brackets, plus 15 NZD, plus 2, now I didn't know what
the abbreviation was for Singapore dollars so I just wrote Singapore dollars, same with
Canadian dollars, I wasn't sure what, I guess it's CND, but I wrote Canadian dollars, plus
2 RMB, that's the Chinese money, and I said, in AUD and you can see it's done a little
calculation for me here and tells me that all of that is equal to 19 dollars and 45
cents in Australian money. I thought that was pretty neat.
So that's a good trick to know if you have lots of currency in different, or different
amounts in different currencies, you can work it out in one simple search and Google will
go and do all the calculations for you. The other thing I just thought was very interesting
was if I leave off the "in AUD" at the end, and do that search again, it still tells me
the answer. I guess it knows I'm in Australia and so it's just assuming that that's what
I want. So, a neat little trick with Google search.