Mixed reactions rolled out on late Tuesday night when netizens discovered that United States Dollar (USD) had “fallen to Pakistan Rupee (PKR) 76.25”, as shown by all major search engines, including Google and Bing.
With panic spreading among some people and others celebrating the dollar depreciation, Pakistan Today went the extra mile to discover that the dollar fall was but a bug in the systems of Morningstar – a financial services company from which all major search engines seek their exchange rate data.
The same was confirmed by other exchange rate providers like Bloomberg and XE, which showed the dollar rate at an unaffected Rs139.38, as recorded earlier in the day.
While the search engines have not yet reacted to the bug, here’s what Twitterati have to say about the dollar rate fiasco.
This cannot be real. It’s 76 #Pakistani rupees to a dollar? #pakistan pic.twitter.com/FpQbeQomDQ
— Mehreen Zahra-Malik (@mehreenzahra) January 15, 2019
I guess #Google is drunkard today !! #Dollar pic.twitter.com/cGh6hEwx35
— Huda Shah (@HudaShahh) January 15, 2019
Such sharp tabdeeli? What’s going on.#USDvsPKR #dollar pic.twitter.com/rfek4TEAD1
— Mohammad Orakzai (@mn_orakzai) January 15, 2019
— alee baig (@AleeBaig) January 15, 2019
Has Govt paid loan to IMF? Or we discovered diamond mines in Pakistan. Is it true?#Dollar pic.twitter.com/Yl4knEvEMx
— Aurangzaib Alamgir (@ItsAurangzaib) January 15, 2019
Bing Search Engine also showing the same #Dollar rates!!! #Google pic.twitter.com/GWcTgGnqqh
— Syed Raza Mehdi (@SyedRezaMehdi) January 15, 2019
Google: 1 United States Dollar equals 76.25 Pakistani Rupee.
Dollar: pic.twitter.com/aMfTnqjcHw
— Irfan Akhter (@TweetsByIrfan) January 15, 2019
When you see 1$=76 rupee on google but deep inside you know it’s fake #Dollar #Google pic.twitter.com/xPMjKYeLlN
— Iqbal’s Shaheen (@chawli_na_marna) January 15, 2019
*Google to Pakistani awam*#Google #dollar pic.twitter.com/yr65PXikmO
— Omar ? (@omar_bulao) January 15, 2019