Comments on: When You Search For Stocks On Google…

By: joe

joe — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:35 +0000

i figured it was because yahoo is “neutral” and objective – not in the finance industry

By: pb

pb — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:50:51 +0000

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#stock

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:08:00 +0000

I think there’s something more at work here b/c there’s a specific icon in place to indicate that there’s financial data avaialbe. Note that this only works on North American tickers on the US Google site. While Yahoo comes up as a first hit on http://www.google.co.jp for a Japanese ticker (try 6501.T for Hitachi), it doesn’t have the icon.

Ironically, I notice that not all tickers work. The symbol for Dow Jones (DJ) doesn’t give you the icon so maybe there is some logic that trumps any affiliate arrangement that might be in place?

By: holly t

holly t — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:26:08 +0000

could it be that yahoo simply is the most popular finance site around in terms of the actual number of hits it gets?

yahoo finance is the backend for the quicken.com site (when you look up a stock you are sent to yahoo data) and i suspect the yahoo finance engine supplies the information for many others sites whether or not we realize that this is where our data is coming from...

so my question is.... do you get credit on google for supplying the data?