Google Finance launched
Posted Mar 21st 2006 10:35AM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Business, Finance, Web services, Google
After last month's
rumors, Google took nobody by surprise
today with the launch of Google Finance. The new financial portal is
pretty slick, with a similar feel to Google Maps. Stock charts are powered by Flash rather than AJAX and have a very
flexible interface. Along with all the usual info like market cap, volume, and so on, Google Finance also annotates its
charts with recent news articles and even blog and newsgroup chatter. One feature I found cute is the
"Management" are of the page that lists the company's higher ups—if you hover your mouse over one of
their names, a little headshot of them will pop up. Ironically, when I hit the page for Apple (AAPL), it showed no photo for
Steve Jobs, possibly the most-photographed CEO in the valley.
Tags: business, charts, finance, goog, google, money, stocks
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-21-2006 @ 10:49AM
Tom Biro said...
If Google's groups were to catch on, this would be a serious player in the field that Yahoo! Finance has owned for a while now. The moving charts were very slick, I thought that the ability to click on each of the letters next to them and see where that was represented was pretty awesome.
Well, at least we now have some more fun and initiative going in a space that has been somewhat quiet for a while now.
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3-21-2006 @ 1:06PM
Shep Eddy said...
I've used Yahoo Finance for years and Google offers nowhere near the depth of options for keeping track of one's portfolio. The charts are indeed slick but it's not enough for me to switch over to Google. What I would really like to see is a chart that tracks my portfolio as a whole (as if it were a mutual fund).
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3-22-2006 @ 7:49AM
Samuel said...
Well why couldn't they fill in Franc for Google Maps at the same time!?!
Samuel
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