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Their flash-based control was more powerful, for drilling into a time range. This is what that used to look like: https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/2006-03-27:_Goog

• kyrra 6y ago
  Highchart's has a UI that is very similar to this and is SVG based (I believe): https://www.highcharts.com/demo/stock/stock-tools-gui https://www.highcharts.com/demo/stock/stock-tools-gui Sadly this seems to continue down Google's trend of simplified controls, fewer power-user type interfaces.
  • Cthulhu_ 6y ago
    That's because Google aims itself at the mass market; power users will be on, well, power user tools. Google and Yahoo Finance are fine for a quick glance for me, but I spend at most a few hours a year looking at these things.
• xibalba 6y ago
  Yes. And the timeline was annotated with significant news events, which was truly fantastic. This used to be an amazing product. Still, it's free, so I'm not going to complain too much.
• Denvercoder9 6y ago
  The irony is that Google actually maintains an SVG version of the old chart in their charting library, which works pretty well: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/annotationchart https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery...
• kevindong 6y ago
  That flash applet was the best that flash could be. It flew through every action without ever hiccuping for me.