At Gunpoint, Yahoo! Finance Finally Innovates

The folks at Yahoo! Finance have apparently awoken from deep-space hibernation, probably because of the alarm triggered by Google Finance.  Today's innovation?  A five-star user-rating system designed to make stock chat-boards more useful (and, perhaps, to reward posters for sounding less like Neanderthals). Yahoo Finance GM Peggy White promises more to come.

Comments

[Neal Lachman]

A freaking ranking system (5 stars or 5 planets, who cares) won't help Yahoo to beat Google's fresh offering. Yahoo better come up with something really dramatically better. Besides Google Search, I am now using Google Finance more frequently, and that's while I like Yahoo!

[Nick]

Yahoo finance needs lot of work. Still, It is way better than Google finance. Till now Yahoo was monopoly and it was sleeping at the wheel. Looks at News & Commentary section http://biz.yahoo.com/top.html. This section layout has not been updated since years. They have so much content here but totally unorganized. Best section is Investing. In general, they have need to organize contents on all the sections in proper way. It is like needle in hay to find things inside Yahoo finance section.
Google, I don't think they are serious. They know search and they should stick to it.

[Jeff Nolan]

Check this innovation out ... It's a new people search engine called PeopleBot People Finder. I typed in Henry Blodgett and it found Henry!

[King Troll]

I agree with Neal. I am starting to Use google Finance more. I like the Yahoo analyst research more though. Those are the only two Finance sites I use. That says a lot given that Yahoo was the only one I used a month ago.

[Walter]

Can anyone tell me specifically why you are using Google Finance over Yahoo? What specific features are better AND are important enough to switch from Yahoo to Goog?
From my perspective Goog Finance isn't even in the ballgame.

Also, how do you get to Goog Finance since it isn't linked to Goog's homepage? Not an insignificant question, is it? Rather than clutter up Goog home page with their own linked pages I should clutter up my Favorites with another web site! Or I can always google Google finance.

And I'm not impressed with the new Yahoo finance. Reminds of the new Coca Cola; change isn't necessarily an improvement.

[King Troll]

Let me point out the I think Google Maps SUCK!. I'm not talking about the cool earch feature. I mean the driving directions feature. Type in two addresses and you get zero results. Type in the same info in yahoo and you get actual results.

Today I was showing one of my social workers how t use it to go from City Hall to a client's house, but it came up with NOTHING. Yahoo whipped out a nice map.

[Agustin Gonzalez]

The introduction of Google Finance will serve as a catalyst for internet portals (Google and Yahoo) to consider snapping up sites that cater to financial news and commentary with an objective of increasing and/or retaining online communities. I think a potential acquisition target would be thestreet.com, which about 8 months ago retained a financial advisor to seek "strategic alternatives". Henry, your thoughts?

[Bruce L]

At first, I thought google finance was better- but I find that I keep going back to Yahoo Finance. I'm not using it any less than I did before, just that I am spending more time surfing two websites, instead of one.

[mike]

Hi Neal, I would also like to use Google Finance more but what areas Google Finance is better? Can you give me some education?

[Bill Burnham]

I think Yahoo did a great job much need in redoing Y! Finance.

Y! Finance Makeover

[Neal Lachman]

Mike, interesting question, albeit a bit moronic and retarded. But for starters, I like the basic info of the officers, it gives a quick overview and as bonus great pictures ;-)

I also like the slider with relevant information/news. It gives an instant overview of historical data, which can, for example, be helpful to see what the build up was to a certain product or service offering.

And Mike, if you need further education, I suggest considering homestudy.

[mike]

Hi Neal, thanks for the information. I guess my case is a little different. I basically check my stock price everyday. What I want are stock quote, latest news and blogs. Is there any way I can hide certion sections, such as Company Financials and Management from G finance page? I don't want to see the same information everytime. Thanks again,

Mike

[Neal Lachman]

Mike, if your ironic tone is left out I'd think you are willingly ignorant. I think what you describe is exactly what G Finance is doing better: speficic quotes better layed out and easy access to data.

I have been using Yahoo finance for years, and I know many pro investors who use it for professional means too. But Google is up and coming. In my opinion most users will experience what commentor Bruce L, above, also stated. He is spending more time, not less, because he is checking out G Finance too. I think it is the same with me. At one point, however, Bruce and I and the likes of us will not want to spend MORE time on the SAME info. We will start making a choice. And then our attention is up for grabs for the one with the best service.

of course, G Finance has lots to add and lots to develop, but I think it is a great service, and I think it only adds to GOOG's value. Nothing more, but in any case nothing less either.

[shinkdew]

The only thing that is better at Google Finance is the chart with the markers. I've found that a lot of those markers are for irrelevent PRs that don't move the stock. Yahoo Finance is light years ahead in all other financial content.

[Market Participant]

I dunno, I like www.nasdaq.com the best. Zacks is also good.

The Yahoo message boards are very spotty in quality some are excellent most are not.

Yahoo needs to introduce a flat thread view. It's so annoying to have to load up many pages to read a thread.

IMHO the best site for analyst ratings and earnings estimates is Starmine.

Market Participant

[Market Participant]

Yeeeech, broken links in last post.

http://investor.starmine.com/

Market Participant

[Tommy]

I'm a heavy finacial sites' user, currently subscrubing to WSJ online and Barron's online for $120/yr. I tried Google Finance immediately when it came out. I did not find it having any real additional values for investment, while I do agree it has more Ajax type charts. When I do need stock charts, I need to go to www.bigcharts.com to launch java chart, so that I can draw trend lines. Now, I'm not visiting Google Finance any more.

Yahoo Finance has so much more. I specially like Yahoo Finance's Commentaries, such a this one -- David Bach (author of The Automatic Millionaire) grandma teached the 7 years-old David at McDonald's: "there are three types of people in the world ... spenders...workers...owners". I'm now planning to buy my 8 years-old son 10 shrs of McDonald's, 10 shrs Walmart and 10 shrs Walt Disney... Thanks to David Bach and Yahoo Finance!

Frequently visits:
Yahoo Finance
WSJ Online
(Barron's on weekends)
Bigcharts.com

Tommy

[ugurss]

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