Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Google today launches financial news website

Google today launches Google Finance - aimed at competing with Yahoo Finance and MSN Money. And it's got some innovative features.

Google Finance offers similar features to its rivals – share quotes and charts, integrated financial news from its Google News service, discussion groups and the ability for investors to create personalised portfolios of their share holdings.

It also introduces innovations. The interactive charts will map market data with news stories, so the effect of announcements can be tracked against the stock performance. The charts can also be dragged dynamically using a scroll bar through different time periods.

And you don't have to remember a company's ticker symbol to search for it (thank the Lord!). Just type their name in and bingo! - you get info on them, latest news on them/announcements and frequency of news about a company, with bar charts showing news volumes over time. You even get bloggers views on the company!

So look forward to TechBoard and other channels from the businessuncut network featuring on Google Finance - fianlly!

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