Google Finance: The Things I Like
There’s good and bad about Google’s new Finance portal. If you want to hear about the bad, take a look here:
- Google v.s. Yahoo finance
- Why Google Finance makes me sad
- Bloggers explore the art of corporate trashing
- No, Yahoo sucks
Now, here’s some of what makes it killer for me. Most of these are cute little interace extras, but some are really useful.
Major Index Overlays
If you look at the main page, they have a section for the Dow, Nasdaq, etc. The relevant graph changes with the selection by mouseover:
Recent Quotes
You can track the last 5 quotes you looked at with just a click from the home page:
News Overlay
Like IMDB pro, the new Google Finance attempts to correlate news with stock price points, generally unsuccessfully at this point. However, the accuracy should improve in the future:
Read it off the chart
You drag your mouse, and the vital statistics update in the upper right. No more staring at graphs with a ruler in hand:
Management Bio Overlays
When you go to see who is running the company, you get a nice rollover set of links and photos. Now you can see what that CEO really looks like, and how much he or she earns:
Misc Google Integration
Why not tie in more than just News, but also Blogsearch and Newsgroups! It’s a good idea to cross reference all other Google services:
This isn’t all that’s new or great about Google Finance–just a few things that turn me on.
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Great start, but what about basics like the dividend / dividend yield? Hello!
There should also be some section with detailed ratios such as those on biz.yahoo.com.
GOOG board has more information then the other
finance sites.