Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance
Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance.
HINT#1 : Referrals from Google.com/finance
After visitng the referring URL, I saw that the live Google 404 “The requested URL /finance was not found on this server.” Error which usually leads to a hint that Google is launching a new service. Google 404 URL messages used to be an indicator of an upcoming product launch, but now Google has expanded their URL message across all non-existing Google pages.
HINT #2 : Referral URL Search Strings
Thinking that this just may be a fluke in my referrals, I dug a bit deeper to find that SEJ has had multiple referrals from the Google.com/finance page, all for queries of “GOOG”, Google’s stock symbol.
http://google.com/finance?q=goog&btng=search+finance
0.frontend.sfe.scrooge.dc.borg.google.com:31853
HINT #3 : Google News Related
Search Engine Journal is indexed in Google News and all of these referrals lead to the most recent news stories on Google which we have published over the past week.
The Google Finance channel or complementary search listings must be highlighting either blog or news stories related to stock ticker symbols. I’m also guessing that Google Finance Groups threads and possibly even Adwords or Google Local Maps may be included.
HINT #4 : Google IP’s
Adding more to my theory that Google is soon launching their Finance Channel or Google Finance, the referrals come from computers tracked back to Google.com:
* google.com
* 213.208.226.42
* 65.57.245.11
* 80.169.137.162 (UK?)
HINT #5 Google Analyst Meeting
‘Google Analyst Day’ is scheduled next week on March 2nd and will include presentations to the financial district from Google Management - Google Finance would be the ultimate product announcement at this get together. Oh, and Wall Street is about 70 blocks from Search Engine Strategies New York, also a traditional place to announce product launches.
When asked about the launch of Google Finance, a Google spokesperson told the Search Engine Journal; “We’re always exploring opportunities to expand our offerings, but don’t have anything to announce at this time.”
Given what I’ve found this morning, I’ll go out on a limb and say that Google Finance is about to launch or is going through some heavy testing.
Comments
23 responses so far ↓
Loren Baker, Editor on Feb 24, 2006 at 7:45 am
After looking at that URL string, I’m wondering if Google Finance’s code name is Scrooge!:
0.frontend.sfe.scrooge.dc.borg.google.com:31853
Gareth White on Feb 24, 2006 at 9:44 am
Is there no end to google spread into other industries?
Loren Baker, Editor on Feb 24, 2006 at 10:14 am
In this case, launching a vertical finance and news result service is quite relevant to Google’s mission.
Google is finally going to be using the technology behind Google News and possibly Groups bring forth an information packed finance destination.
Google Finance may also bring secondary monetization to Google News, as it would fly better to place AdWords on vertical finance areas than directly in News results.
Reto Meier on Feb 24, 2006 at 11:31 am
Google has scheduled ‘Google Analyst Day’ on March 2 with presentations from Google Management. Seems like a finance releated portal or service would be just the thing to present.
More from the Google press release:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/ir_20060224.html
jedd on Feb 24, 2006 at 11:32 am
or i wonder if they might do something like yodlee…
Jojo on Feb 24, 2006 at 2:32 pm
That would be a good move. If you search for “goog” on Google.com and click there on the chart you get to Yahoo Finance. I assume Yahoo Finance don´t pay for this, so an own product as replacement would be a possible move. We´ll see …
alek on Feb 24, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Interesting … I wonder if the big “G” is going to read this and block referral strings … ;-)
Kaber on Feb 24, 2006 at 5:07 pm
404 error doesn’t mean much.
http://www.google.com/dontdeletecomments gives you a 404.
Nice Job Loren!
goala on Feb 25, 2006 at 5:08 am
halllooo
Loren Baker, Editor on Feb 27, 2006 at 5:54 pm
The 404 message is a small part of the news. The fact is that the URL was sending referrals, from Google IP’s, on search queries about GOOG, to articles indexed in Google News…
I think you’ve made your point about 404’s.
Difference is that google.com/finance was live and being used :)
Joe on Feb 28, 2006 at 2:10 am
Look:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/update-on-payments_24.html#links
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Giles@ the file high club on Mar 21, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Finally Google is launching this service- Yahoo Finance is very good but the competition should improve both services. It’s good to finally have news reports on price graphs- saves one having to do printouts and start marking crosses on them!
Feitian Du on Mar 27, 2006 at 3:57 pm
It seems to me that google finance is an also run in the finance portal business. To live up to the google brand, this portal needs to do better. For example, google finance should be able to predict the stock price for the next trading day, or even after. I know that magicta.com web site contains predictions for 7300+ stocks. May be google should do the same.
namehere on May 24, 2006 at 8:42 am
It seems to work for me:
http://google.com/finance
It clearly isn’t very good.
namehere on May 24, 2006 at 8:45 am
I guess the flash graphs are nice.
Mike on Nov 3, 2006 at 4:23 am
I’ve taken a quick look at your postings, which are very interesting. Lots of material and ideas! Congrats on being so focused!
Ryan on Dec 16, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Yea…it clearly isn’t very good…….NOT
It owns what are you talking about. Look at the interactive Charts, the news, blog integration, the Drop down ticker technology. It beats out a lot of the websites out there for stock effeciency. It is very user friendly and good looking. Beats Yahoo!
2 things it needs to fix:
1)Being able to add a stock to your portfolio from the stock company snaposhot page.
2) Canadian Version! I can’t access my venture stocks. lol
today on Feb 1, 2007 at 5:40 am
hai testing
gamonie on Apr 11, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I haven’t gotten much done these days. So it goes. What can I say? I’ve just been letting everything pass me by. Basically not much going on lately, but it’s not important. I’ve basically been doing nothing worth mentioning.
MaryJames on May 23, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Hail all
How I can change avatar in this forum?
outsource seo on Mar 12, 2008 at 3:40 am
Google finance is now live on beta
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