Google Finance Beta Released

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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Today's REAL Google story: Gmail is gorked up

[King Babar]

From comments on other blogs, I know my experience is not unique. The number of temporary glitches and server errors has been increasing recently. Today, I can't even get on the system because it's been Server Error all morning.

I love gmail greatly, and would gladly pay for it. If the stability of the thing were improved. Right now, I'm in the really bad situation of depending on Gmail for non-trivial things, and if this lasts much longer, I might have to switch to some other service.

On the topic of *this* thread...the big problem with finance.google.com is indeed the lack of acquisition data for holdings in your portfolio. You really want and need that, especially come tax time if you need to claim cap gains and losses.