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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[eno2001]

WHO CARES? Why are people so obsessed with money, investments and the stock market? What good does it do you unless you have a lot of money to invest, which most of us don't? Frankly I think we'd all be better off without the concepts of money and property and everyone was just made to share equally by force of law (and the use of drugs to destroy the selfish nature in humans). We'd also go a long way if we eliminated all religions and got rid of "philosophies" like Ayn Rand's Objectivism. The government itself should be run by machines who would hold to the law with no emotion thereby obviating the need for Objectivism in the first place. That is what we need: the death of the monetary and private property systems.

Just In: Google merely collects other data!

[Gothmolly]

So the comment is that its a sparse site, composed of data collected and aggregated from other sites? My God! What is Google thinking! Oh wait, thats what they do, and are pretty successful at it. Think about it - in your Gmail screen, theres a little bare-bones stock price ticker, or just summary of the prices for the day... that's what Google's doing - they want to be your portal.

Except they so far have kept the interface cool, ads to a minimum, and the functionality high.