It’s been more than a month since Google Finance shed its beta label, and finally today it is rolling out some design tweaks it has been testing out for the past few months.
In the screen shot above you can see most of the changes. There is now a persistent navigation bar on the left with links to news, portfolios, historical prices, and financials. In the left column, you also now see streaming live quotes for the most recent stock tickers you’ve entered. It is a sparer version of the left-hand column on Yahoo Finance, with more dynamic and personalized content.
The charting is also a little more sophisticated, with various technical charting capabilities available as an option via a drop down menu below each chart. Finally, the company comparison table is now more customizable, allowing you to choose which financial metrics you want to add or remove. It doesn’t go as far as Wikinvest’s recent redesign, which highlights much more insightful industry metrics for many stocks.
All in all, the tweaks to Google Finance are a step in teh right direction, but nothing too radical.
(Hat tip to reader Michael Konen).
ooo lala…
Google Finance? Is people are using that? http://seekinga...09?source=yahoo
I, for one, *dont* like the recent changes to goog finance. wtf happened to the size of the chart? Its way smaller now.
Hi Erick, you have a typo in teh last sentence
Bernd, you have a typo in your name.
ftw
Actually no, Billie Bob.
teh typo
And speaking of this, who would actually use it? I mean if you are trading, then there are so much better platforms like e*trade, etc…
And if you are not, well, I guess why would yu use it in the 1st place then…
Except it looks worse on the iphone…
I wonder when they’re going to release a mobile version.
If you ask me all applications like this should be released simultaneously with a mobile version.
Hope google can provide a means to revert to the old format which provided a single page snapshot of a company akin to Moodys. Financial statements, officers, ratios, stock prices of competitors.
I have but one request, allow users to keep the old format, or even to customize how they view company info
Is it just me or looks like Google copied Bing’s interface here? Sign of more things to come on Google Search?
Google will rule this planet.
Obviously u never ever used Google Finance..
Totally!
Very cool and nice tool.
I’ve played with it and it’s useful to check the trends with it in order to pick a good stock.
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http://apps.fac...er-trends-buzz/
agree, erick. i have colleagues at a top tier private equity company that often use wikinvest’s data to get a fast understanding of a company. data is king for investors, and they have great data.
still, goog and wikinvest will both have a hard time displacing yahoo finance, which is much bigger and still growing according to compete.com
Good steps, but I’m still a fan of Yahoo finance.
Agreed. Y!Finance is the king of the crop for actionable data views.
Google Finance is not even in the list http://seekinga...09?source=yahoo
I am not a regular, but the update is a good idea still.
I don’t think it will matter. If there isn’t something game changing then real investors see no value in trying to learn about google’s new features since yahoo fulfills the current needs just fine.
Yay, technicals! been waiting for Goog to add those. Even has candlestick charting. Woot.
Like the technical analysis tool.
I like the old UI better. This feels to cramped.
Wonder if Google offers financial widgets for webmasters to place on websites and blogs. What would you know about that by chance?
http://googlefi...tabs-oh-my.html
Even the DOW and NASDAQ were fancy yesterday, luckily
do people really use those technical charting features? i don’t understand why so many sites build that stuff…
wow, i missed the earlier post on wikinvest, but that stuff is pretty awesome. i’d rather look at that fundamental data over technical charting any day.
Looks cool ..
We broke this story 4 days back -> http://www.watb...ore-such-moves/
Kinda. Your story doesn’t really provide screenshots of the new product (besides what is on the Google Getting Started page).
Nothing here would make me switch from Yahoo.
This is mostly a nice step in the right direction. Unfortunately the LHN bar has made the main portfolio page a little too cramped and it all seems a bit pointless. You could do the same with the previous version. As for the “live streaming quotes” shown on the diagram in the article, well all quotes are live and streaming, just create a second portfolio as a watch list and watch them flicker about.
But when you select a stock the changes are much more worthwhile. The technicals are a great addition, I no longer have to use Yahoo! Finance for the technicals. Where Yahoo still wins is you can add stocks from many more exchanges around the world. Google still have a long way to go on that, …I don’t always want to add an ADR if I’m trading on a foreign exchange.
They still have a way to go to catch up to MSN Money as well. There I can get the financials/metrics of a company for the last 10 years. I know you can do some of this in the screener but it doesn’t cover everything Microsoft have. And it would be nice to be able to get this information on the main page of the stock.
Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google all have their strengths, nobody wins hands down yet, and I’m still using all 3 sites for 3 completely different reasons. But Google are now major players and level with Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Andy
I forgot one thing, a major mistake from Google, when you have a portfolio, you can see events for each stock in the portfolio, next to the event you can add it to your Google Calendar by clicking on the Calendar icon. This is the same as the previous version which is good. But with the old version, you had a calendar icon that could be clicked on in order to add all events in the portfolio. This is now missing and something I use and thought was a great feature in Google Finance.
Is this another example of Google really kicking Google Calendar out of the door. Maybe it’s not a big money spinner, but it’s certainly an excellent tool!!!! Come on Google, get it together with you calendars!
Andy