Web Biz: Google Finance
Ramblings on Web Technologies, ColdFusion, and Business

• Google Finance
  Google has released the beta of it's very own finance portal.  Although this beta was released on March 21, I am just starting to take note of the advanced feature set and user interaction that, perhaps, makes this finance portal better than that offered by rival Yahoo!  The service provides detailed information, links to news, and some great new features (according to the google blog):
  
  But perhaps Google Finance's most important innovations take place after you've found the company in question. You'll find interactive charts that enable you to zoom through different time periods, headlines mapped right on the charts and are based on Google News, which means you're seeing unbiased and relevant results from more than 4,500 English-language news sources. And you'll get insightful comments from bloggers about public and private companies, plus Discussion Groups moderated by enthusiastic community advocates, which should foster some quality exchanges about the companies you care about.
  
  I think that this is a move in the right directions, and the financial community has been begging for this.  I am sure that some paid services currently provide these additional features and capabilities, but like I said, the problem is you have to pay for them.  I hope this will force other free financial data providers into revamping their finance portals to meet the demand of more interactive and rich user interfaces, that often utilize the technologies of AJAX and Flash (or now, Flex).
  
  Furthermore, Google Finance also provides insight into some private companies and as well as Funds in addition to public corporations.
• "Google Finance" by car mechan
  

  its good thing done by google for google finance in providing service like detailed information, links to news, and some great new features. hope this creates a great competition among the online finance sites. i am sure they will definetly adopt different ideas and features to over come the competition, going to be very tough.