Sep 4, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Blog announced a new trends project named within Google Finance named Google Domestic Trends. In short, Google tracks searches on Google.com and then groups those search volume metrics into industry sectors. Google will then plot the search volume by several industry sectors on a trends graph and allow you to then overall stocks and indices on top of those search volume trends. For example, I plotted Continental Airlines stock price on Google's domestic trends index for airline travel: Google thinks there may be some useful insight into search volume for economic forecas [...]

Related Topics: Google: Finance | Google: Trends

Google Search, Video & Finance Testing Interface Changes

May 6, 2009 at 10:13am ET by Barry Schwartz

It appears that Google is testing new user interfaces for Google Web Search, Google Video Search and Google Finance. On Google Web Search, Google is testing showing "Review This Site" as a link, as opposed to a graphical comments icon. On Google Video Search, Google is testing additional search filters on the left hand side. And on Google Finance, Google is testing a new side bar. Let's dig deeper into each Google test. As reported at the Search Engine Roundtable, Sam from Oh Nuts noticed Google testing what appears to look a lot like the Google Wonder Wheel in the video search results. [...]

Drill, Baby, Drill: Google Finance Gets Ads; Google News Testing Them

Nov 17, 2008 at 7:26pm ET by Danny Sullivan

In my Ad Age column last month, I joked about Google taking a "drill, baby, drill" approach in rolling out more ads everywhere on its properties. Now the latest ad reservoir to be tapped: Google Finance, as announced today on the Google Blog. You'll find a new box as shown above sporting ads on the Google Finance home page, as well as ads that are running along the sides of internal pages: Google also notes that Google News will be getting ads: In the very near future, we will start testing text ads on a small number of news refinements within Goog [...]

Google Adds News Blog & Finance Blog

Jun 22, 2007 at 9:27am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google frequently adds new blogs, most are for international translation of their other blogs now - but recently Google added two new blogs. The Google News Blog was launched yesterday and the Google Finance Blog was launched Wednesday. Hat tip to Googlified. [...]

Related Topics: Google: Finance | Google: Marketing | Google: News

Google Finance Integrates Google Calendar, News & Reader While Adding New Features

May 8, 2007 at 8:49am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Blog announced new features for Google Finance. The features include: Events section now lists earnings calls, analyst meetings and other scheduled events relating to a company Add those events to your Google Calendar right from that page View and download historical prices (example for AAPL) You can download the latest portfolio performance and transaction details from your portfolio Links to the news RSS feeds for each stock ticker Google News now links to Google Finance if the company is listed Here is an example of Google Calendar integration with Google Finance for Apple' [...]

Related Topics: Google: Calendar | Google: Finance | Google: Reader

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