As anticipated, Google Finance rolled-out an update, sidling up to Yahoo’s popular standard bearer. New functionality includes the ability to chart comparisons to similar companies. Although, it still seems to still have some bugs (see pic); when I tried it out, the additional companies selected did not all display in the chart. In addition, some visual customization is now available. More at Zdnet.
New Comparison Feature in Google Finance
As anticipated, Google Finance rolled-out an update, sidling up to Yahoo's popular standard bearer. New functionality includes the ability to chart comparisons to similar companies. Although, it still seems to still have some bugs (see pic); when I tried it out, the additional companies selected did not all display…
While somewhat buggy, these new functionalities are great. Google Finance still lags behind the msn finance (hard to achieve some functionalities without heavy activx use…), but it is getting quite powerful and worth a try.