Google Finance
Google launches personal finance site via Niall Kennedy
In their neverending release of new sites, Google has launched Google Finance, which is basically a search engine for financial information. There’s some pretty impressive graphs of previous stock prices that you can rollover to get more information at any given point, plus lots of core data on the company that you’re interested in. It’s not just limited to public companies as well, you can also view information about companies such as Transitive, although obviously their accounts aren’t public so there’s less data for Google to display. Alongside each company profile are links to news stories about the business and also any blog posts which might be related.
The main let down with Google Finance is that it will only display graphs for companies listed on US stock exchanges (such as the NYSE, but I imagine there will be other national versions available at some point. There also isn’t any new information available – it’s just a way of viewing several features that already existed in Google before, albeit with a bit more jazz and a clean layout. Smaller companies are missing too – I couldn’t find any details on the places I’ve worked in the past.