Google Finance

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Google Finance
Image:Googlefinance.gif <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> Image:GOOG Google Finance.jpg Google Finance screenshot</td></tr><tr><th>Developer:</th><td>Google</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Any (web based application)</td></tr>
Use:	Financial information site
Website:	http://finance.google.com/

On March 21, 2006, Google, Inc. launched the new Google Finance website (Official Blog Post). The service features the latest business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events about the company in question as well as stock information with an Adobe Flash-based stock price chart, which allows users to examine current as well as past company stock data. The site also displays relevant blog posts on a company, and features a Google groups-like forum for each company. Recently, the functionality to compare stock data between multiple tickers simultaneously was added.

[edit] Trivia

When the flash plugin is unavailable on the clients browser, an image version is given with the message "For the ubercool interactive charts, you will need to install the Macromedia Flash Player".

[edit] Criticism

A major criticism of Google Finance compared to many other leading online financial pages is that it is too US-centred, and information from other countries is either minimal or non-existant.

Google Finance is often cited as an example of an unsuccessful foray into a web service beyond web search, of which Google has many but only a fraction of which have attained a large and devoted following. As of November 2006, eight months after being launched, Google Finance has 579,000 users, as opposed to Yahoo Finance's 13.7 million. Yahoo users also spend about 28 minutes on their finance site, approximately double the time of Google Finance users.