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Why Yahoo Finance continues to give Google Finance a noogie

by on August 24, 2009

In spite of being one of the lone voices online who actually likes and uses Google Finance (check out my Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance post), it’s becoming clearer and clearer that I’m really in the minority. The NYT ran an article this weekend that looked at both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.  A good [...]

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Google Finance refresh is, well, refreshing

by on July 13, 2009

Kudos to the Google Finance team.  While Google Finance’s first lead, Katie Stanton is off galavanting somewhere within the Obama administration (go Katie!), Google Finance hasn’t missed a step.  While I may be criticized as a G Finance pump monkey, I’ve always enjoyed their simple platform.  For looking up quotes, monitoring the portfolio and simple [...]

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Screening 2.0: Some more resources

by on June 22, 2009

Investors frequently ask me what tools I use to research stocks, ETFs or mutual funds online.  My typical response is to point them to Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and then to drill down to both sites’ screening tools.  They are good tools, frequently robust enough for most individual investors.  Screening 2.0, an important placeholder [...]

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Just a matter of time until ads showed up on Google Finance

by Zack Miller on November 24, 2008

For those of us following Google’s foray into online finance, it was always kinda strange that Google, the contextual search behemoth, never had any ads on its fledgling financial site, Google Finance. Until last week. Yes, folks, last week included that fateful moment when Google schlocked up their pretty clean interface to deliver more ads [...]

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Yahoo Finance sprucing up globally…yawn

by Zack Miller on October 16, 2008

I love Yahoo Finance.  Even if they weren’t the first or even the best financial portal, it has been the go-to place for investors, both individual and institutional, to research stocks, industries, markets, and ETFs — for years.  Many gripe that Yahoo has been slow in turning the huge ship that is Y Finance, but [...]

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