Google Finance Now Showing Bitcoin Prices, Too
The bitcoin community was abuzz on Tuesday with news that Yahoo Finance had added bitcoin prices to their expansive finance network, and it looks like someone else has hopped aboard the train. Google. Now, I can't tell you just when they added this, but if you run a search for 'CURRENCY: BTC' on Google Finance [here's a link if you're lazy], you'll be presented with price and news data, as one would come to expect. Much like I said about Yahoo Finance's addition of bitcoin price data, it very much seems to be in a testing phase as well over at Google Finance. There's no chart data (I'm....
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There was great excitement early last month when first Yahoo, and then Google Finance added bitcoin data to their finance pages. Reference articles: Yahoo Finance Adds Bitcoin Prices, Google Finance Now Showing Bitcoin Prices, Too. Now, Google search results will now show you the price of bitcoin, which will be much to the satisfaction of users of the world's most popular search engine. Searching for a query like "1 bitcoin" or "bitcoin price" will show you the relavent conversion to United States dollars (or other currency, depending on your location), and even allows you to make....
A spokesperson from Google said: "We added a number of currencies to Google Finance, from the Icelandic króna to the East Caribbean dollar to Bitcoin. We're always working to provide more of the financial data people are looking for." Google Finance has launched a bitcoin price tracker, offering market information across several major fiat currencies as well as access to breaking news in the digital currency world. Users can access prices in BTC/USD markets, as well as prices in pound sterling, yen, euro, renminbi, Australian dollar and Canadian dollar markets. The tool also enables review....
This week bitcoin continued to inch further into the world of mainstream finance. Check out the top headlines below: Google and Yahoo! displaying bitcoin prices: First Yahoo! Finance and then Google Finance started offering bitcoin prices on their websites. Along with price tickers, both organizations are also showing a stream of cryptocurrency news items. A Yahoo spokesperson told CoinDesk that they added bitcoin prices to their site because users had expressed interest in the currency. Expedia to accept bitcoin for hotel bookings: Expedia became the latest large company to reveal plans....
Internet search giant Google has updated its search engine to automatically display bitcoin prices when users enter certain queries. The news comes roughly one month after Google Finance partnered with Coinbase to launch abitcoin price tracker that enabled BTC-to-fiat price conversions across a wide range of global currencies. A representative from Google confirmed the update to CoinDesk, noting that the tool works on Google Search's smartphone app as well. The spokesperson said: "You can also ask Google to do conversions - if you have the Google Search app on your smartphone, for example,....
Yahoo Finance, a popular hub for casual and professional traders, has begun adding bitcoin prices to their extensive index of information (see the picture above). Available under the ticker BTCUSD=X [link], the page will provide users with the latest price (not that they couldn't get it elsewhere), along with news items, as any finance website would show. But it's an interesting development, with many users in the community taking this as a good sign in the ever-developing bitcoin story. Surely, Yahoo's stamp of approval (which could be seen as further legitimizing the digital currency)....