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Goodbye Yahoo Finance Hello Google Finance?

April 2006

The once excellent Yahoo Finance looks pretty much dead in the water now that Google has introduced Google Finance.

What Is Google Finance

  • A free news/price/charting service for the stockmarket
  • It's especially good for US stocks but does a good job in covering UK ones as well
  • For US stocks just enter the normal ticker such as 'IBM' for UK stocks enter LSS followed by the ticker so Vodafone would be 'lss:vod (doesn't matter if you use caps or not)
  • Because the service is in 'Beta' there are no price charts on UK stocks as of yet but for US stocks the charts are excellent

Don't give up on Yahoo Finance though, we still use both services and if you're smart and use a browser like Mozilla with its tabbed browsing feature switching between the two sites is simple - See this IP.com article - Dump Internet Explorer & Go With The Superb Mozilla Browser

Summary

Google does it again and comes up with a product that basically shames its competition Yahoo have only themselves to blame because for over 5 years they've invested little if anything in their Finance portal. But for consumers this is no doubt good news because Google's beta product will likely improve forcing Yahoo to also take action.

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