Currency Conversion With Google Calculator

Working on a recent project I found myself in the market for a way to simply calculate what one currency is worth in relation to another. After some looking around I was surprised to find currency conversion can be performed quickly and simply using the Google Calculator API. To use you need only make a request to the API similar to this:

http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=1AUD=?USD

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