Google Finance, like just about anything Google does these days, is a combo lightening rod and ink-blot test. Some sample react:
MarketWatch: Reviewer Bambi Francisco gives the site a modified thumbs down, explaining that it has some interesting features but isn’t “terribly impressive. … besides an interactive chart, there is nothing innovative or certainly spectacular about the new service.”
Bill Bishop, co-founder, MarketWatch (via Seeking Alpha): “If GF gets to scale, which it should if Google decides to redirect even a small portion of its traffic firehouse towards GF, Google will be positioned to squeeze millions of dollars from business publishers desperate for traffic and eyeballs, even if they do not surpass YF.”
Henry Blodget: The former Wall Street analyst says it would take total market domination to register on the revenue scale. This post showed up in the related blog posts on the Google Finance Goog page., which he describes as “a traffic firehose. Here I am, bashing away (initially), and suddenly the traffic starts gushing in from the Google Finance Google page. Business bloggers are going to love this.”
Times Online: Bryce Elder likes the interfact but has serious qualms about the discussion groups. “Every poster this new site attracts will need a moderator, which makes the whole project hugely expensive. … With financial bulletin boards, Google could well have created its first product that cannot increase its audience without expenses rising at the same pace. This could prove to be a very expensive, very public mistake.”
Jason Calacanis: “Google, of course, has taken a hard line from inception that they are not in competition with their content providers who run Google Adsense. However, Google Finance will certainly give pause to finance partners who run Adsense. Those partners have to now ask themselves “by running adsense are we supporting our competitor?”
Update: MediaPostYahoo is already planning new features, including more dynamic charts and multimedia. .
– In addition to discussion moderators, maybe Google should have hired some editors to vet its profiles. ValleyWag dishes on a photo snafu.
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