Google Search Integrates Bitcoin Price Calculator
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,....
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Researchers at the University of Kentucky have published a new paper examining the characteristics of US bitcoin users based on an analysis of Google search data. The paper, titled "Characteristics of Bitcoin Users: An Analysis of Google Search Data", resulted in some rather controversial conclusions about the types of people that appear to be using the digital currency. However, even the researchers admit little is known about the average bitcoin user due to the lack of systematic data collection and blockchain pseudo-anonymity. Dr Aaron Yelowitz and Matthew Wilson, who carried out the....
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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