Comments on: Yahoo Beats Google–Is It Enough?

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:55:44 +0000

Yeah, that’s why I said it probably wouldn’t hurt you “unless you’re an obsessive stock market gambler or a professional day trader.”

And let’s face it, if you need that extra millisecond, you’re not using Yahoo or Google for your financial info.

By: Tom Becktold

Tom Becktold — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:51:55 +0000

Just to focus on your final question, is a one-minute delay worth the worry? Depends on the audience a site hopes to attract. Casual traders and individuals may be ok with delayed data, but for serious investors and traders, a one-minute delay is an eternity. Algo-traders, which make up a huge portion of trading activity, are looking to shave milliseconds off time-lags in data and information.

By: Udi

Udi — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:48:43 +0000

Odd, I usually prefer Yahoo products as they are superior to Google’s. However, in this particular case I think Google Finance is simply better – it offers so much more, even if it’s slightly harder to use (and it is). I guess my taste differs from that of the NYT!
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By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:25:08 +0000

Yeah, I’m not sure I buy the “fear of data.” I was about to put screencaps of stock profile pages in this post—but Yahoo’s didn’t look “cleaner,” like the NYT seemed to think. To me, Google’s looked slightly less cluttered, but didn’t work on some level for me. I think your analogy is apt.

By: Byrne

Byrne — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:17:57 +0000

What’s surprising is that Google shoves their own finance content into the top of the SERPs. Search for, e.g. KO, and you’re going to see a chart, a quote, and some extra market data. (The first organic result is from Y!Finance.)

Google Finance does look really good, and the tools they have function quite well. But they’re feature-phobic and they hate clutter. Most people who care about finance still remember scanning stock tables in the paper; they expect to be bombarded with columns of numbers when they read about stocks. Google’s design is clean, but it’s the unnerving kind of “clean” you get when you go to the grocery store and the shelves are bare.