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The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually. It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Chart

by tempsy 7y ago

The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually. It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.

mikeyouse 7y ago
The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.
- ping_pong 7y ago
  Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.
  - JumpCrisscross 7y ago
    > There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?
    - ramses0 7y ago
      Simply- google has outgrown it. No inside info but it’s unlikely that finance.google.com will ever grow past $xxx million/billion revenue per year, so its more profitable for google to keep rolling the dice on chat services.
      - trhway 7y ago
        How about "all the world information" ? :)
  - irrational 7y ago
    When will I stop being even slightly surprised that Google has abandoned yet another one of it's sites?
    - UncleMeat 7y ago
      It's not abandoned. They did a redesign that power users don't like.
  - sargram01 7y ago
    Not abandoned, lost interest. They have no incentives to work on projects after the fun wares off.
- jlmorton 7y ago
  Especially amazing since it used to be pretty good. The former codebase must have been an absolute mess for Google to throw it away in favor of the garbage that exists now.
- eshyong 7y ago
  I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something: https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.
  - mikeyouse 7y ago
    Surely they could just list the autocomplete suggestions as search results though, no? Why is it so incredibly broken?
- natch 7y ago
  Not just finance. Compare Google Street View with Apple's "look around" feature. Night and day. To be fair I haven't looked at street view recently, and Google's coverage is better for now. Or Gmail spam filtering... I can't even begin to fathom what they are thinking, whoever is in charge of that. I mean really... they have the privilege of working at Google? And... really, that's the level of effort and quality they give us, after 20 years of time with the problem? Yes I know it can be a hard problem, and an arms race, but the level to which they are utterly falling down with good signals in the data, like the fact that I explicitly signed up for and sometimes read and reply to a mailing list, is mind boggling.
  - UweSchmidt 7y ago
    With Google in particular, I feel like you can tell when a new lead takes over a product. I imagine leading a product is a career move at Google, people move on and new folks take over, diluting the original vision of simplicity, functionality and magic of early Google products. In Google Maps on Android, the status bar is now transparent, and important information like clock, battery status, connection quality and incoming messages are now drawn on top of the map. I'm sure that looks great in a presentation but now those little icons have little, and varying contrast and are hard to decipher. In Youtube in the browser, I have autoplay disabled. Every time I log into Youtube (after a reboot), autoplay is enabled again.

by tempsy 7y ago

mikeyouse 7y ago

The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

ping_pong 7y ago
Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago
  > There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?
  - ramses0 7y ago
    Simply- google has outgrown it. No inside info but it’s unlikely that finance.google.com will ever grow past $xxx million/billion revenue per year, so its more profitable for google to keep rolling the dice on chat services.
    - trhway 7y ago
      How about "all the world information" ? :)
- irrational 7y ago
  When will I stop being even slightly surprised that Google has abandoned yet another one of it's sites?
  - UncleMeat 7y ago
    It's not abandoned. They did a redesign that power users don't like.
- sargram01 7y ago
  Not abandoned, lost interest. They have no incentives to work on projects after the fun wares off.
jlmorton 7y ago
Especially amazing since it used to be pretty good. The former codebase must have been an absolute mess for Google to throw it away in favor of the garbage that exists now.
eshyong 7y ago
I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something: https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.
- mikeyouse 7y ago
  Surely they could just list the autocomplete suggestions as search results though, no? Why is it so incredibly broken?
natch 7y ago
Not just finance. Compare Google Street View with Apple's "look around" feature. Night and day. To be fair I haven't looked at street view recently, and Google's coverage is better for now. Or Gmail spam filtering... I can't even begin to fathom what they are thinking, whoever is in charge of that. I mean really... they have the privilege of working at Google? And... really, that's the level of effort and quality they give us, after 20 years of time with the problem? Yes I know it can be a hard problem, and an arms race, but the level to which they are utterly falling down with good signals in the data, like the fact that I explicitly signed up for and sometimes read and reply to a mailing list, is mind boggling.
- UweSchmidt 7y ago
  With Google in particular, I feel like you can tell when a new lead takes over a product. I imagine leading a product is a career move at Google, people move on and new folks take over, diluting the original vision of simplicity, functionality and magic of early Google products. In Google Maps on Android, the status bar is now transparent, and important information like clock, battery status, connection quality and incoming messages are now drawn on top of the map. I'm sure that looks great in a presentation but now those little icons have little, and varying contrast and are hard to decipher. In Youtube in the browser, I have autoplay disabled. Every time I log into Youtube (after a reboot), autoplay is enabled again.