It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
When did Yahoo have their own finance site? (most of it is provided by a third party, or was when I worked for said provider)
Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
11–20 of 187 posts
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#12This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?
He's referring to the collective work of everyone who created a portfolio during the feature's 12-year existence.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#13This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?
Yes, but the author isn't the only user. There's millions of users in 12 years, their cumulative work is gone.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#14Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#15Hi - I'm the creator of https://bravos.co, a replacement for Google Finance. (I didn't have anything to do with this article being posted.)
I actually left my job two months ago to work on this full-time... Google Finance used to be a "home page tab" for me and it was just killing me that I couldn't find a good alternative. Bravos.co features a clean interface for tracking public companies, cryptocurrencies, and even private companies. The platform pulls in news, social conversations, and key financial data, and has modern features like a "Dark Mode" and mobile site. APIs, native apps, notifications, and more are coming soon.
We have a 2 minute video walkthrough here: https://youtu.be/gpQpCK9Ydl0
We would love to get your thoughts - we want to build this based on community feedback.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#16This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?
You're correct. Author added some stocks into their hypothetical portfolio and went back to check to see how it was doing.
I wonder if Google sent emails to uses notifying them that the service was going to be discontinued.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#17It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
When did Yahoo have their own finance site? (most of it is provided by a third party, or was when I worked for said provider)
[deleted]
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#18It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
When did Yahoo have their own finance site? (most of it is provided by a third party, or was when I worked for said provider)
Since January 19, 1997.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#19It is mind boggling to me that both Google and Yahoo have thrown away their finance sites. It's utter garbage. And on the phone, Google Finance is even worse. They don't even use the same site or the same behavior, even though I'm pointing to the same URL. It's insane. Why would they completely disregard finance? Are they really not able to make a profitable site using ads?
What's funny to me is that so many people complain about large tech companies eating up every product category and preventing competition. But when they later kill these products, people complain all the same. Which is it?
Seems like an opportunity for someone else, if it was really being relied on that much.
I suspect it wasn't. The author of the article said he hadn't checked in six years. Six years! And he's complaining that Google threw his work away.
People want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Re: Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
#20Was anyone really using this feature? Even the author sounds like he wasn't actively using the feature. He entered some data 6 years ago, and went back today to find it was missing.... He didn't even notice until almost a year after it was removed. Keeping every feature around, even the unused ones that look like failures, is a bad idea.
Repeatedly destroying trust by dropping things and breaking things for people, is a bad idea.