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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. T

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?

rch 8y ago
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)
- thewizardofaus 8y ago
  Yahoo finance has been around for a very long time!
  - deleted 8y ago
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- ChristianBundy 8y ago
  https://finance.yahoo.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/
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- astura 8y ago
  Since January 19, 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance
- chkdsk 8y ago
  Yahoo finance was the original finance site where your parents used to look up stock quotes for Nokia and Pets.com during the original tech bubble.
- shagie 8y ago
  Being a perl/regex person back in the day, I recall having Mastering Regular Expressions as a well thumbed reference book. The author, Jeffrey Friedl ( http://regex.info/blog/jfriedl-links/about http://regex.info/blog/jfriedl-links/about ) worked at Yahoo! Finance at the time. It was a most impressive and useful site in its time.
giarc 8y ago
When did Yahoo throw out their finance site? https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/ https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/
- adventured 8y ago
  They didn't. No idea where the parent is coming from on that. It still functions much the same as it has for the last 15 years and still provides real-time quotes, proper financials, news, press releases, charts, etc.
  - unethical_ban 8y ago
    They did eliminate their API.
- docker_up 8y ago
  I meant it's a shadow of its former self from 5 years ago. It was consistently the best and most useful finance site, over Google Finance, and now the articles are terrible. The news feed for a company used to be great, but somehow it has been turned into something terrible and useless.
  - yfi 8y ago
    How would you describe the changes to the company news feed that made it terrible and useless?
beaner 8y ago
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.
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- protomyth 8y ago
  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? Both. They expanded into an area and killed the competition then killed their product and left a void. See Google Reader for the life cycle.
  - zapita 8y ago
    Yes, exactly. Those are not contradictory. If anything, it makes it more obvious why unchecked Big Tech expansion into every market, subsidized by their core monopolies, is a bad thing for consumers in the long run.
  - beaner 8y ago
    And now readers still aren't popular... There is no big replacement that people are using. Google didn't kill the category, it was already dead.
- oconnor663 8y ago
  > Which is it? It's different people complaining in each case.
  - taeric 8y ago
fspeech 8y ago
Through Google Spreadsheet you have access to many of the same underlying functions for finance, like quotes, financials etc. I have always kept portfolio tracking through the spreadsheet, which in addition offers more powerful functionalities when it comes to numerical computations.
bitxbit 8y ago
It’s because the mobile free alternatives are so much better.
- steakknife 8y ago
  Do you have any examples you recommend?
holografix 8y ago
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.
steakknife 8y ago
I know you mentioned below that you don't like their current news feed, but for what it's worth, Yahoo Finance is going the opposite direction of Google, upgrading and adding features and integrations, not removing stuff. For example, apropos of the article, Y!Fi not only has the same watchlist functionality that everyone is angry Google removed, but you can now link your live brokerage account for real-time portfolio tracking across their apps/site. If you reach out to them with constructive feedback they are pretty receptive. (Full disclosure: I work for https://trade.it https://trade.it which provides the aforementioned broker API functionality to Yahoo Finance)

rch 8y ago

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)

thewizardofaus 8y ago
Yahoo finance has been around for a very long time!
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
ChristianBundy 8y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/ https://finance.yahoo.com/
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]
astura 8y ago
Since January 19, 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance
chkdsk 8y ago
Yahoo finance was the original finance site where your parents used to look up stock quotes for Nokia and Pets.com during the original tech bubble.
shagie 8y ago
Being a perl/regex person back in the day, I recall having Mastering Regular Expressions as a well thumbed reference book. The author, Jeffrey Friedl ( http://regex.info/blog/jfriedl-links/about http://regex.info/blog/jfriedl-links/about ) worked at Yahoo! Finance at the time. It was a most impressive and useful site in its time.

giarc 8y ago

When did Yahoo throw out their finance site? https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/ https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/

adventured 8y ago
They didn't. No idea where the parent is coming from on that. It still functions much the same as it has for the last 15 years and still provides real-time quotes, proper financials, news, press releases, charts, etc.
- unethical_ban 8y ago
  They did eliminate their API.
docker_up 8y ago
I meant it's a shadow of its former self from 5 years ago. It was consistently the best and most useful finance site, over Google Finance, and now the articles are terrible. The news feed for a company used to be great, but somehow it has been turned into something terrible and useless.
- yfi 8y ago
  How would you describe the changes to the company news feed that made it terrible and useless?

beaner 8y ago

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.

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protomyth 8y ago
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? Both. They expanded into an area and killed the competition then killed their product and left a void. See Google Reader for the life cycle.
- zapita 8y ago
  Yes, exactly. Those are not contradictory. If anything, it makes it more obvious why unchecked Big Tech expansion into every market, subsidized by their core monopolies, is a bad thing for consumers in the long run.
- beaner 8y ago
  And now readers still aren't popular... There is no big replacement that people are using. Google didn't kill the category, it was already dead.
oconnor663 8y ago
> Which is it? It's different people complaining in each case.
- taeric 8y ago

fspeech 8y ago

Through Google Spreadsheet you have access to many of the same underlying functions for finance, like quotes, financials etc. I have always kept portfolio tracking through the spreadsheet, which in addition offers more powerful functionalities when it comes to numerical computations.

bitxbit 8y ago

It’s because the mobile free alternatives are so much better.

steakknife 8y ago
Do you have any examples you recommend?

holografix 8y ago

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.

steakknife 8y ago

I know you mentioned below that you don't like their current news feed, but for what it's worth, Yahoo Finance is going the opposite direction of Google, upgrading and adding features and integrations, not removing stuff. For example, apropos of the article, Y!Fi not only has the same watchlist functionality that everyone is angry Google removed, but you can now link your live brokerage account for real-time portfolio tracking across their apps/site. If you reach out to them with constructive feedback they are pretty receptive. (Full disclosure: I work for https://trade.it https://trade.it which provides the aforementioned broker API functionality to Yahoo Finance)