The Google Blog announces that NetCoalition’s efforts to free up stock quotes are close to succeeding. For now, stock quotes online are a messy business, with most websites haveing quotes that are time-delayed (usually 15-20 minutes), or require registration or fees for real-time stock values. It’s ridiculous that the stock exchanges wouldn’t be making it ridiculously easy for people to buy and sell stocks with proper information (their bread and butter) in the name of considerably smaller stock quote fees.
As a result, we’ve worked with the SEC, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and our D.C. trade association, NetCoalition, to find a way to bring stock data to Google users in a way that benefits users and is practical for all parties. We have encouraged the SEC to ensure that this data can be made available to our users at fair and reasonable rates, and applaud their recent efforts to review this issue. Today, the NYSE has moved the issue a great step forward with a proposal to the SEC which if approved, would allow you to see real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties including Google Finance, Personalized Google, Mobile, and of course, Google.com. It won’t matter if you’re on Wall Street or Main Street — you’ll have free, easy and fast access to real-time prices from NYSE on Google.
NetCoalition is a collective public voice for Google, Yahoo, IAC/Ask.com, CNet and Bloomberg. Gary Price told me that, if you can’t wait for NetCoalition to complete the deal, you can get free real-time stock quotes at FreeRealTime. The site requires registration, but BugMeNot’s got your back. There’s even a WAP version. The quotes are ECN quotes, which is a confusing and difficult situation in itself, so be aware of that.
You can find out how delayed Google stock quotes are currently at the bottom of this disclaimer page.
| American Stock Exchange |
20 min |
| Canadian Venture Exchange |
15 min |
| Commodity Systems, Inc. |
End-of-Day |
| Dow Jones Indices |
Real-time |
| Euronext: Amsterdam |
15 min |
| Euronext: Brussels |
15 min |
| Euronext: Lisbon |
15 min |
| Euronext: Paris |
15 min |
| London Stock Exchange |
20 min |
| NASDAQ Indices |
Real-time |
| NASDAQ Stock Exchange |
15 min |
| New York Stock Exchange |
20 min |
| New York Stock Exchange Indices |
Real-time |
| S&P Indices |
Real-time |
| Toronto Stock Exchange |
15 min |
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January 12th, 2007
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
Finance, Ask, Yahoo, Search, General |
one comment
Steve Bryant went and basically redesigned the Yahoo homepage as if it were created by Google filled with Google services, and instead of being a jab at either company, it looks great. Some people in his comments are even saying Google should hire him (which is hilarious, since it’s Yahoo’s design with text and some image editing), and he made me realize two things:
- #1: I wish Google had a page like this. I wouldn’t use it all the time, but it could be really useful for when I need to quickly access a Google service. Right there on the page is direct access to Google Reader, Gmail and Google Calendar, three services I could use, but never really have the time for. I know Google’s personalized homepage can basically embed a Gadget for these services, but it never works well in my browser, and takes too damn long to load. Plus, I have no interest in laying out my own Google homepage; I thought that was why companies pay for UI designers?
- #2: I have a newfound respect for Yahoo’s homepage. I hadn’t realized they were doing some cool things with a dynamic page, and it loads plenty faster than I expected it to. The only reason I’d rather the Google version of the Yahoo homepage over the original is that Yahoo hasn’t put anything there I want. The eight tabbed boxes taking up the meat of the page are news boxes, and I’m a news junkie, which means that everything already there I already know, or will be getting from a better source. Steve’s version puts services front and center, and that makes it far superior.
Now, no one wants Google.com to get complicated and crazy, but I think putting a page like this at home.google.com would satisfy a lot of people, myself included. Google could even base it on Google Gadgets, but put the interests of the UI designer first, because that’s what many users want. Google doesn’t need to go all Yahoo on us, but I’ve been waiting for them to offer something compelling for the typical Yahoo user.
There is one Google property that appeals to a Yahoo-type user, though, but it’s called YouTube. Not Invented Here, right?
January 12th, 2007
Posted by
Nathan Weinberg |
iGoogle, Yahoo, Search, General |
6 comments
