macaonghus

Four Stock Implications of Google Blog Search (GOOG, IACI, MSFT, YHOO)

Hm I don't know ... I like your angle, but I am not sure that I agree with it. It is easier to hit a lot of blogs because they run on specific domains (OK, many don't but still). Livejournal, Blogger, Typepad, MSN Spaces etc. I think you might be trying to work backwards from the assumption that Google Finance is coming. In fact, what Google has done for Finance is pretty minimal, sure you can enter the ticker in the search box, but not much more than that. And Yahoo allows that anyway. For people who use Finance regularly it is pretty easy to type. I agree that Yahoo Finance is looking increasingly out of date, and the news is poor, but Google still has a long way to go. And I am sure Yahoo is doing something about it.

I think an equally plausible interpretation of the way Google has addressed Finance is that it filling in holes with polyfilla and hoping no one notices it's just stopgapping.