March 22nd, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the second annual European Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. This scholarship gives recognition to outstanding scientific contributions from students with disabilities who are pursuing university degre…
March 22nd, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Today, we’re updating the Chrome beta channel with a couple of new capabilities, especially for web developers. Fresh from the work that we’ve been doing with the HTML Speech Incubator Group, we’ve added support for the HTML speech input API. Wit…
March 22nd, 2011 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
(Cross-posted from the DoubleClick Search blog)DoubleClick Search began in 2006, a tool for larger agencies and advertisers running large-scale online advertising campaigns across multiple platforms. It’s designed to manage the execution of paid sear…
March 22nd, 2011 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
by Patrick CopelandGoogle Innovation and the Pretotyping Manifesto*: I had the pleasure of keynoting at the sold out San Francisco and London QCon conferences. Combined about 1300 people attended. They recently published the video and I’m including it …
March 21st, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
SpotCloud.com is the realization of a dream originating more than 7 years ago when we first started Enomaly. SpotCloud was born from a desire to change the way cloud computing is bought and sold for the better by overcoming the inefficiencies (inclu…
March 21st, 2011 | by Karolina Netolicka, Product Manager | published in Google Finance
Posted by Karolina Netolicka, Product Manager and Laura Hughes, Consumer Operations
Google Finance celebrates its fifth birthday today. We thought this would be a great opportunity to look back on the last five years and highlight some of the most exciting features we have launched.
Google Finance launched on March 21, 2006 with pricing data from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Amex and Euronext. Our most innovative feature at the time was the now-familiar interactive chart that seamlessly scrolled, zoomed, and showed a timeline of news coverage for each company. Later that year we added the ability to track your investments in a portfolio.
New Features
In 2007 we added some major new ways to access Google Finance. We launched our first mobile application and iGoogle gadget. In addition, we added the GoogleFinance functions which allow you to easily incorporate financial information into your Google Spreadsheets.
In 2008 the big addition was the Stock Screener. In 2009 we added Google Domestic Trends, which uses search data to track the state of the US economy. Finally, last year we added options data and the ability to chart the performance of your portfolio.
Apart from these big launches, we’ve also made countless smaller improvements. Both charts and quotes now automatically update while you’re viewing the page. You can display technical indicators on the chart, view after-hours trading data, and expand the chart across the whole page. You can see information on related companies for all US public companies. And your portfolio now adjusts your holdings for splits and dividends.
Data Coverage
Over the years we have expanded our data coverage to 24 exchanges in 15 countries. More importantly, though, Google Finance has pushed for consumer access to free real-time quotes. In 2008 we were the site to launch real-time quotes for NYSE and NASDAQ
to non-logged-in users. Since then, we have upgraded all of our data in China and India to real-time.
Today, Google Finance continues to deliver timely financial data to users all over the world. Our users rely on us for our stability – Google Finance was one of the few services to stay up during the flash crash on May 6, 2010. As much as you rely on us, we also rely on you. Last year we launched a Product Ideas page, receiving over 5,000 feature ideas. This type of user engagement is what has allowed us to offer you the product we present today. Thank you all for a great five years, and here’s to many more ahead!
Then (2006):
Now (2011):
March 21st, 2011 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Some of you on Chrome’s early release channels may have noticed our latest tweak to Chrome’s icon:Since Chrome is all about making your web experience as easy and clutter-free as possible, we refreshed the Chrome icon to better represent these sent…
March 21st, 2011 | by Ariel | published in Google Orkut
Two weeks ago, we announced that we are preparing a visual upgrade to Orkut’s interface. We have just started to roll it out to a small percentage of users, so some of you might start to see it. Right now, we are only upgrading those who are using ne…
March 21st, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Voice
Over time, we’ve worked to bring an integrated Google Voice experience to your mobile device by building mobile apps, introducing Google Voice Lite, and most recently Number Porting. But we felt that ultimately, the most simple solution would be to par…
March 21st, 2011 | by Shane Cassells | published in Google Conversions
According to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European mobile phone market grew 7.5% year on year to 50.7 million units in 3Q10. Shipments of smartphones increased to 19 million units, 109% higher than the previous year’s…
March 18th, 2011 | by Jessica Lulovics | published in Google Student Blog
We understand that learning about AdWords for the Google Online Marketing Challenge can be difficult in such a short time frame. So we’ve decided to give you a helping hand and run a live, online webinar on Thursday March 24th from 2pm – 3:15pm GMT (…
March 18th, 2011 | by Jessica Lulovics | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.We love using our computer science (CS) and engineering skills to solve some of world’s most interesting and important problems. We also know that not enough students are pursuing careers in CS and that the …
March 18th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Sunday, March 20 from approximately 3:00am to 7:00am PT. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Best,- Eric Koleda, …
March 17th, 2011 | by Shane Cassells | published in Google Conversions, Uncategorized
Today at the Google Analytics User Conference in San Francisco, we shared a look at a new version of Google Analytics. We’ve also reached out to a small group of Analytics users to participate in the testing. If you’re part of this group you’ll s…
March 17th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
[Cross-posted on the Enterprise Blog]March is a special time for college basketball enthusiasts as the NCAA® Championship games heat up. This season is especially exciting for us on the Apps for Education team to watch, as more than half of the teams …