Comments on: News: Google.Portal.Finance Launches

By: Keith Cash

Keith Cash — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:57:20 +0000

Michael;

Thanks for the heads up on internetstock blog

Other
The Google site is cool.
The steps that google takes is normal business, make more money.

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:36:55 +0000

http://wikicompany.org is also an interesting business information site.

By: Scott Lake

Scott Lake — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:06:59 +0000

The part that I find interesting is that Google has decided to include blogs along side the financial data. The only problem I forsee is what happens when the blogs posts include rumors or attacks which could cause the stocks to move in an unfavorable direction. Who would be liable if a company decided to sue? Is it the blogger who wrote it or does Google share some responsibility for publishing it? I’m interested to see how this goes…

By: Todd Henley

Todd Henley — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:27:54 +0000

Finally!

By: Eric Frenchman

Eric Frenchman — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:11:29 +0000

John,

Google Finance is really just a baby step. For the average investor, it lacks research and analytics that are needed to make good investment decisions. However, I love the way it integrates all available news and blogs making it superior to finance sites that only display news from sites that have feed deals in place. See more of my review at http://www.ericfrenchman.com

By: Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:32:47 +0000

John, this is Game On. You are correct, this marks a significant move for GOOG, and every other vertical should be taking this as a wake-up call. Why? Well, as you say, beyond the move to content creation, it marks the first serious move into portal-esque behaviour, where the eyeballs stay inside Google's tent. It says that they are willing to take the search revenue hit in a big category in order to try to build their own audience. For one, travel players must be terrified - this is the signal they and others no doubt have been waiting for, and hoping would never come.

Huge, John. Just huge.

- Stuart

By: Jared Lansky

Jared Lansky — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:09:27 +0000

Since Google is paying out 80% to publishers it makes sense to produce content in-house.

Jared Lansky

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:30:10 +0000

John -
There is a good post and discussion on this topic on the InternetStockBlog that I think rounds out your post. Here is the link http://internetstockblog.com/article/7930

By: Heather Hopkins

Heather Hopkins — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:49:14 +0000

I was really interested in what you said about using downstream visits from Google as a gauge for product development. I looked at downstream visits on Hitwise to see where UK internet users go after Google.co.uk. Last week, 20% went to the Computers and Internet category (including search engines, image search, online communities and email), 14% went to Shopping and Classifieds sites, 11% went to Entertainment sites, 10% went to Business and Finance sites, 9% to Travel, 6% to Education, 5% to Lifestyle, 5% to News and Media, 3% to Government, 2% to Sports, and so on… Google has most of these categories covered now – with the exception of Travel.

So will Troogle be the next development – as rumour suggests? I will post more detailed stats on this on my blog shortly (weblogs.hitwise.com).

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:09:03 +0000

It’s about time they shipped that thing, considering how long it’s been available internally.