Filed under: Business, Finance, Web services, Google
Rumor Alert: Google Finance?
This one
falls firmly into the wild speculation category, but Search Engine Journal is reporting that this morning it saw a number of referrals from google.com/finance. The requests came from Google IPs and the referrers included
queries for "GOOG," Google's stock symbol, and led to SEJ's most recent articles about Google. This would
seem to indicate that google.com/finance is a site that rolls stock information, business news, and other relevant
Google content into one portal. Google PR is characteristically mum, saying only, "We’re always exploring
opportunities to expand our offerings, but don’t have anything to announce at this time." I agree with SEJ:
The fact that Google Finance has its own google.com URL (and not just an internal Google IP) would seem to indicate
that whatever it is, it's pretty close to launch. (And yes, the "logo" above is faked by me.)[Via Jeremy Zawodny]
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