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It reads like, > find someone who has this as a serious business, we will abandon this service eventually
by rplnt 9y ago
It reads like,
> find someone who has this as a serious business, we will abandon this service eventually
- olympus 9y agoI know that they will probably kill it like they do all of their useful products, but it seems like this could turn a profit for Google. A moderately trained monkey should be able to turn a profit either by selling people's financial search information or by investing based on their searches (although I'm not entirely sure that would be legal). What investor wouldn't pay for a real time stream of search volume for each ticker?
- dmoy 9y agoRight but Google doesn't do the former (sell user info), and the latter no big company will touch with a 10' pole once anyone in legal gets wind of it.
- olympus 9y agoGoogle wouldn't be selling individual user searches, just something like "TSLA has had 52 queries in the last second." Nobody's privacy is violated there. Google already reports historical search trends, so it is plausible that they could make a real-time version to sell. They could charge by the number of symbols you subscribe to, or by the frequency you desire.
- skybrian 9y agoIt looks more like an interface change, like what happened with hotel room finding where they rolled it into regular search. Search is core to Google and it's not like people are going to stop searching for info about stocks, so it makes sense to use that UI and avoid having separate web apps where possible.