March 21, 2006
Google launches Google Finance. what can you exect in near future?
As anticipated from long time Google has finally launched Google finance.
You can exepct a full run down of google finance on this blog later today. For now here are some of the features:-
Company Search — With Google Finance you can search for stocks, mutual funds, public and private companies, using both company names and (where available) ticker symbols.
Interactive Charts — Google Finance charts correlate market data with corresponding dated news stories to help you determine if there is a relationship between them (for instance, by seeing news stories that came out about a certain company in the context of what that company’s stock did that day). You can also click and drag the charts to see different time periods and zoom in to see more detailed information.
News and More News — Google Finance incorporates our Google News service, which gathers stories from more than 4,500 English news sources worldwide. Stories are clustered by topic so you can see different opinions on a single subject; you can also review news stories by monthly date range and by importance (which is determined by algorithms).
Blogs — If you want the opinions of citizen journalists, you got ‘em; Google Finance includes company-related postings from Google Blog Search.
Company Management Team — Google Finance helps you put a face to a name. Mousing over an executive name shows you their picture as well as links, where available, to their biography, compensation details and trading activity.
Discussion Groups — Talk amongst yourselves. Google Finance offers high-quality Discussion Groups whose dedicated team of moderators work to keep conversations on and spam-free. (They are eyeing fool.com here it seems)
Portfolios — Google Finance offers a fast, easy and powerful way to keep create and maintain your portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.
This would stiff competetion to competing sites like yahoo and msn. In all fairness they still link to Yahoo, Msn, MarkeWatch, CNN and Reuters when you search for a ticker symbol in google. (Imagine MSN and Yahoo linking to others after having launched their own service).
Finance information was one are where there were plenty of options already. Google as lacking in organising the finance information. They have filled this gap now. They have been offering real-time and delayed stock prices and portfolio features for quite sometime on search and google home page and Google desktop search.
What more we can expect in coming days..
- Portfolio alerts
- Portfolio RSS feeds
- Share your portfolio with others
- Google home page module with selective details from google finance
- Country specific version of google finance (atleast major financial markets)
- Mobile version of Google finance
- Google Finance API
- Adwords on Google Finance…
I wonder if Google Finance will have an API?