> When we combine this with Google’s destruction of millions of person-years of (part-time) work in Picasa, is the only reasonable conclusion that Google has re-hired Marissa Mayer? Huh?
Seriously, what a nasty comment. Trying to think of what possible context they could put around this comment that would justify it.
Obviously you're not familiar with Marissa Mayer's work.
I remember that before Mayer, Yahoo Mail was lightweight, fast and it displayed emails chronologically and in a well categorized way.
After Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo, the Yahoo email client became slow and clunky and it grouped emails together in a strange way which made it hard to find stuff; thankfully I was able to figure out a way to disable this 'feature'. That's not even mentioning all the Yahoo Mail hacking scandals that happened on Mayer's watch.
Was 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.
It was one of the few google products that was critical for me that I used daily both through web interface and 3rd party app integration.
I understand "not used by me = not used by anyone" fallacy, but it can be applied to any product closed by google, including reader, inbox, talk, etc.
Stay away from Google products and services! With all their stringent to the ridiculousness level hiring, they seem to hire calculators, not humans in the negative sense. They don't get families either - I haven't seen their diversity numbers, but maybe they are predominantly a bachelors' company, yet, they try to design products for families. For example, I am the family manager of our Google Play store account. Now, after the clowns come up with Google One, which for whatever reason needs a massive migration, so, after six months I'm still not in. Well, guess what, they invited my son and my wife to One, but not me, you know, the family manager. Well, my son created his One account, and my wife's old Storage account got converted to One, and suddenly, she became the Google One manager. See, one family, two managers. And this cannot be undone. So, if they had a single family man in this circus, he or she would have influenced the product design, and deliver something that doesn't lead into double charges, countless calls with customer support, and most importantly - customer frustration. At the same time, Microsoft gets it. Amazon gets families, too, and Facebook and Google don't. I had similar experiences with the bachelor demographic of Facebook's in Product Design. Anyway, back to the original point - Google doesn't get social dynamics, as they don't get regular people in general. Most importantly, with all their computer scientists, they don't seem to realize that by abusing us repeatedly, they make sure we don't bother to use their future products and services. They recently killed Inbox, but, honestly, that was a belated decision - they had to kill it a second after it was launched as a completely idiotic product! Sometimes I wonder what kind of people work on their products! They are way too full of themselves and live in their twisted reality. That's why I would never respond to their recruiter emails and calls! Google and Facebook are the last place on Earth I'd go! And the ex-Googler title means nothing nowadays anyway. I repeat, keep off Google! Short their stock!
Hi - 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 eve…
Hi - 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 eve…
Thank you for this beautiful website. I'm not a trader so sorry if this is obvious but is there any plan to include index funds like vtsax? I try searching for vtsax but it keeps kicking me out with no error message. Is it out of scope?
Stay away from Google products and services! With all their stringent to the ridiculousness level hiring, they seem to hire calculators, not humans in the negative sense. They don't get families either - I haven't seen their diversity numbers, but maybe they are predominantly a bachelors' company, yet, they try to design products for families. For example, I am the family manager of our Google Play store account. Now…
Stay away from Google products and services! With all their stringent to the ridiculousness level hiring, they seem to hire calculators, not humans in the negative sense. They don't get families either - I haven't seen their diversity numbers, but maybe they are predominantly a bachelors' company, yet, they try to design products for families. For example, I am the family manager of our Google Play store account. Now…
I understand your view point and empathize with you. Google is not reliable when it comes to product longetivity. However, not all their products are such and shorting their stock won't address any of these issues.
Hi Daniel, neat site and I'm really happy someone is taking this on! As the OP noted, the killer feature for me to choose GoogleFinance (GF) above all other "free equities tracking websites" [1] was its portfolio. I've just tried to see if your site addresses those pain points and it doesn't - but I think you're halfway there. What OP's "hypothetical portfolio" means is basically the tracking of a whole set of select…
I'd also like to echo that having a portfolio tracker would be for me a the killer feature. I have a mix of equities and mutual funds purchased at different times and different prices and I really just want to input the purchase dates / amounts and then have a single place to track performance. GF had this and now it's all gone. I'd pay some amount of $ per month (or year or whatever) to just have a reasonable portfo…
If you don't mind using a windows application you can give https://www.stockportfolioorganizer.com a go it does what you need and much more like allowing you to paper trade, divide into different groups, write formulas etc.
Stay away from Google products and services! With all their stringent to the ridiculousness level hiring, they seem to hire calculators, not humans in the negative sense. They don't get families either - I haven't seen their diversity numbers, but maybe they are predominantly a bachelors' company, yet, they try to design products for families. For example, I am the family manager of our Google Play store account. Now…
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?
And there is Google’s and a lot of the current web’s mistake: relying on ads for everything.
Couldn’t Google have charged a monthly subscription for the service? Oh you wouldn’t pay for it? Then Google made 100% the right choice in killing it.