Google Financeis a website focusing on business news and financial information hosted byGoogle.

Google Finance
Developer(s)Google
Initial releaseMarch 21, 2006;18 years ago(2006-03-21)
Operating systemBrowser-based
TypeFinancial information site
Websitewww.google.com/finance/

History

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Google Finance was first launched byGoogleon March 21, 2006. The service featured business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events. Stock information was available, as wereAdobe Flash-based stock price charts which contained marks for major news events andcorporate actions.The site also aggregatedGoogle NewsandGoogle Blog Searcharticles about each corporation, though links were not screened and often deemed untrustworthy.[1]

Google launched a revamped version of their finance site on December 12, 2006, featuring a new homepage design that lets users seecurrencyinformation, sector performance for the United States market and a listing of top market movers along with the relevant and important news of the day. A top movers section was also added, based on popularity determined byGoogle Trends.The upgrade also featuredchartscontaining up to 40 years of data for U.S.stocks,and richer portfolio options. Another update brought real-time ticker updates for stocks to the site, as bothNASDAQand theNew York Stock Exchangepartnered with Google in June 2008.[2][3]Google added advertising to its finance page on November 18, 2008. However, since 2008, it has not undergone any major upgrades and the Google Finance Blog was closed in August 2012.

On September 22, 2017, Google confirmed that the website was under renovation and that portfolio features would not be available after mid-November 2017.[4][5]

In early 2018, a notice on the website announced that the website had been renovated. The notice said that the portfolio feature was to be removed, and advised that stocks from the old portfolio feature would be migrated to the new website, and also giving the option for users to download the portfolio as aCSV file.[6]

A Google Finance mobile app was removed from theGoogle Play Storein 2015.[7]

Google Finance was relaunched in 2020[8]with tools to help users get started investing.[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Search Engine Watch –Google Finance's Untrusted Links and Spotting Nofollow – November 26, 2006ArchivedDecember 27, 2008, at theWayback Machine
  2. ^Kirkpatrick, Marshall."Google Finance and the Real Time Web".Read Write Web, June 2, 2008.
  3. ^Webware –Google Finance gets real-time NYSE ticker updates – Josh Lowensohn – June 24, 2008ArchivedOctober 19, 2013, at theWayback Machine
  4. ^"Huge Google Finance Updates coming in November".Phandroid – Android News and Reviews.September 22, 2017.
  5. ^"Follow & compare stocks – Google Search Help".support.google.com.
  6. ^"Google Finance".finance.google.com.January 9, 2018.Archivedfrom the original on January 9, 2018.RetrievedJanuary 9,2018.
  7. ^"Google Quietly Removes Its Finance App from the Play Store".April 2015.
  8. ^"Google Finance makes investing information more accessible".Google.September 9, 2020.RetrievedOctober 6,2021.
  9. ^Nonninger, Lea."Google has redesigned Google Finance to educate consumers about the stock market".Business Insider.RetrievedOctober 6,2021.