<story><title>Google Finance Finally Updated</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Yes but they were implemented in Flash.&lt;p&gt;So obviously they didn&amp;#x27;t choose to remove features, they were &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; to rebuild it from scratch.&lt;p&gt;And along the way, instead of it being a standalone product (which was really only justified because of competition from Yahoo Finance etc.), it made more sense for it to be simply part of Search, and so give simpler results.&lt;p&gt;Does that make sense? I don&amp;#x27;t think they torched anyone&amp;#x27;s goodwill here. It&amp;#x27;s not senseless -- to the contrary, there was a lot of sense to what they did.&lt;p&gt;If you want a &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; finance tool, Google (or Apple) stock &amp;quot;apps&amp;quot; are probably not going to be the right choice in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What a bizarre press release that accompanies this...
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;google-finance-makes-investing-information-more-accessible&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;google-finance-makes-inv...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google Finance used to have all these features. They were already implemented and working fine in 2009! The original chart tool was much better than the current version. You could see every dividend that was issued, splits, add moving averages, etc. 
Then they &amp;quot;simplified&amp;quot; it by removing all the best features and are now adding them back?&lt;p&gt;Why would I bother to use this when they have so thoroughly torched their goodwill by senselessly killing off working (and good!) products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oramit</author><text>Are you a google product manager? I ask because, wow, this response is condescending.&lt;p&gt;I know the original chart tool was in Flash... I used it and described the features it had. Why after 10 years is the new version less useful than before?&lt;p&gt;Yahoo finance stayed separate and has been better for it. It doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense for stocks to be integrated into search - I completely disagree.&lt;p&gt;I never said anything about Google Finance being the only tool I used. It was a perfect place to start and once I found an interesting security I would move over into something more &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Does that make sense?</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Finance Finally Updated</title><url>https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GOOG:NASDAQ</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Yes but they were implemented in Flash.&lt;p&gt;So obviously they didn&amp;#x27;t choose to remove features, they were &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; to rebuild it from scratch.&lt;p&gt;And along the way, instead of it being a standalone product (which was really only justified because of competition from Yahoo Finance etc.), it made more sense for it to be simply part of Search, and so give simpler results.&lt;p&gt;Does that make sense? I don&amp;#x27;t think they torched anyone&amp;#x27;s goodwill here. It&amp;#x27;s not senseless -- to the contrary, there was a lot of sense to what they did.&lt;p&gt;If you want a &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; finance tool, Google (or Apple) stock &amp;quot;apps&amp;quot; are probably not going to be the right choice in the first place.</text></item><item><author>oramit</author><text>What a bizarre press release that accompanies this...
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;google-finance-makes-investing-information-more-accessible&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;search&amp;#x2F;google-finance-makes-inv...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google Finance used to have all these features. They were already implemented and working fine in 2009! The original chart tool was much better than the current version. You could see every dividend that was issued, splits, add moving averages, etc. 
Then they &amp;quot;simplified&amp;quot; it by removing all the best features and are now adding them back?&lt;p&gt;Why would I bother to use this when they have so thoroughly torched their goodwill by senselessly killing off working (and good!) products?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acdha</author><text>The Flash switch could explain a few months but they had years to do a small project which much smaller companies did for more complicated projects. This seems a lot more like the usual Google problem where everyone involved moved on and nobody had an incentive to do maintenance work.</text></comment>