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Google Finance Beta Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the money-money-money-money dept.

t3rmin4t0r writes "Forbes.com is reporting that google has rolled out a finance site. The site finance.google.com seems to be too plain and looks suspiciously like something quickly hacked together. The Forbes article mentions that "Google had previously provided financial information through a framed page featuring information from Yahoo! Finance, Fool.com, MSN Money Central and ClearStation " and that the information is collected from various sources rather than a direct feed from the stock exchanges, making it probably less useful for buy & sell decisions. "

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  1. Hacked Together? by SWeinig · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would hardly call it 'hacked together', the graphing utility alone constitutes real UI thought.

  2. Re:Quick. Clean. by hey! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not a bad way of doing things.

    One thing Google learned from search is that people prefer simple. Provided an app does something useful, it's better in my view for it to start lacking some features than for it to drag useless, distracting, and poorly thought out features along for the rest of its natural lifespan. Let the users clamor for what they want, and cherry pick the low hanging fruit, repeating ad infinitum.

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