Google Finance: Basics - About Google Finance 

Google Finance offers an easy way to search for stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies. By combining content we've licensed from financial data providers with content we've crawled and indexed from the Web, we're able to provide an easier method of finding and managing financial information online. Our goal is to deliver a broad range of unbiased news and information in an intuitive and uncluttered user interface.

Here are some specific Google Finance features:

• Company Search - With Google Finance you can search for stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies, using both company names and ticker symbols (where available).



• Interactive Charts - Google Finance charts correlate market data with corresponding dated news stories to help you determine if there's a relationship between them (for instance, by seeing news stories that came out about a certain company in the context of what that company's stock did that day). You can also click and drag the charts to see different time periods and zoom in to see more detailed information.


• News and More News - Google Finance incorporates our Google News service, which gathers stories from more than 4,500 English news sources worldwide. Stories are clustered by topic, so you can see different opinions on a single subject; company-specific stories are listed and charted on company summary pages; and sort news stories by You can also review news stories by monthly date range and by importance (which is determined by algorithms).


• Blogs and Feeds - Want the opinions of citizen journalists? Track your own progress on a blog? Google Finance lets you plot relevant blog posts (powered by Google Blog Search and even specific feeds on our interactive charts.


• Company Management Team - Google Finance helps you put a face to a name. When you place your cursor over an executive name, that person's picture is displayed, along with links (where available) to a biography, compensation details, and trading activity.


• Discussion Groups - Talk amongst yourselves. Google Finance offers high-quality Discussion groups whose dedicated team of moderators works to keep conversations lively and spam-free.


• Portfolios - Google Finance offers a fast, easy, and powerful way to create, maintain, and track your portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.

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