The Google Search That’s Smoking Hot in Dollar-Starved Argentina
A currency exchange rates board in Buenos Aires.
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Argentines are more obsessed with the dollar than ever.
Or at least since 2004, when Google began tracking the search data. People in the South American nation are entering the word “dolar” -- Spanish for dollar, of course -- in Google’s search engine at an unprecedented clip.