Google launches own Finance site
Google today launched it own finance site called simply Google Finance.
Following are the some of the initial things I like about the Google Finance.
1. All the stock information is on the same page and very fast loading.
2. The headlines are from all news sources (seems to be using Google News) instead of a just a few financial reporting sites.
3. The message board for each stock will be on groups.google.com. You can start a discussion and see all the reply’s on the same page. On Yahoo you have it click on each message which gets very annoying.
4. Perhaps the best feature is the blog entries for each stock. Google is using its own blog search site (blogsearch.google.com) for this purpose. However, each stock has its own search query. If you simply have a entry on Yahoo on your blog it will not show up. However, if you have Yahoo Inc. then it will show up. So bloggers will have to make sure they are using the exact name that Google is pulling for its blog search. For example, my Blogs on SIFY do not show because Google uses the term ?Sify Ltd.? However, if you search for ?Sify? my blog shows up. Anyways a great idea to add a blog entries on the main Google Finance page.
5. The simplicity of the design is where Google always wins out and it has in this case as well.
What I don’t like about Google Finance:
1. There could be a lot of unrelated news of the stock since Google is pulling news from all news sources. They should have a separate section for official company news release.
2. They need to provide capability to arrange all the different sections up to the user?s preference and also let users add other sections that might be missing. This would be something like they provide on Google’s personalized Home Page.
After initially playing around with the site I think it?s a very well thought of site. Everything that I need is on the same page and saves me time. I am waiting for the markets to open before further exploring the site but I might switch from Yahoo! Finance to Google Finance. Hopefully, this will force Yahoo to redesign its site. For me, the Blog Post section is great and gives bloggers like me more visibility. I personally like the site very much and I am switching to Google Finance.
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