Google's Napoleonic Complex

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Have you tried Google Finance??

Try it, select a stock, click on the chart, notice you can drag the chart and the news moves in sync. Now see the overview chart (above the main chart), click on it, now you can select the *range* of dates to look at, and the news reduces down to only the important issues in that range. So if I select a 1 month period it gives me detailed news, select a 1 year and I get only the most important events of the year. Now look at the company bio and see who runs it by moving the mouse over it. Sometimes you get the pictures too.

That's about the best I've seen in a finance site, the informations all there, without being overwhelming.

Now try this:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=thai+president
(I'm a big fan of Mama Instant Noodles, from Thai President Foods Bangkok, better than Raman anyday). Yep, pulls up the stock fine.

Try the same on Yahoo Finance:
"Your search for 'thai president' returned no Stock matches.".

One of these is in Beta, can you tell which??

On their "Napoleonic Complex", yep they make bad choices that I strongly disagree with. But there's no underlying pattern of it, it's just the sort of dumb **** we all do.

Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 03/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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