Google finance has finally arrived in beta. I took this for a test drive. The first thing I did was search for SIRI . Now your able to do some really cool stuff. Drag the chart left and right and stop say around May 2005. You will see the news on the left automatically change. Very cool. Also mouse over on the chart shows some neat info. Whats even more interesting is each news story is given a letter and that is overlaid on the stock chart so you can see how the stock reacted to the news. Very cool. I am not too keen on the home page, but do love it once you go look at a specific and the home page remembers recent quotes and begins to track it for you. Now click on one of those symbols - if the chart was moved all the way over to 2004 or so, it would scroll the chart to reveal the symbol and stock at that point. You can also click on Map for the particular company your looking at and it goes to google maps. Nice touch.
They also have plenty of other featuers, but these were my favorits. Other cool stuff to look at are the blogs and discussions area.
Here are some specific Google Finance 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.
- Portfolios — Google Finance offers a fast, easy and powerful way to
keep create and maintain your portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.
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