Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 5:08 PM
Today we're pulling the wraps off Google Finance Canada, a localized version of Google Finance tailored for Canadian investors. One of our top requests has been for localized market information, presented of course in a useful and accessible format. We think Google Finance Canada addresses this by presenting top news and company news from Canadian sources, economic data from the Bank of Canada, multi-currency portfolios, and Canadian equity and mutual fund data. The main Google.com search experience has also been improved with Canadian stock onebox results. But speaking as a Canadian, my favourite feature is the company search that prioritizes Canadian companies (no more typing in Canadian exchange prefixes!).
What makes this release extra-special for us is the fact that it was put together by a distributed team of full-time and 20-percent-time engineers. (All the Google engineers may devote 20 percent of his or her work time towards a project of their own choosing.) We're grateful to have had the contributions of 20-percent engineers from our Hyderabad, Kirkland, Montreal, Mountain View, and New York offices to make this launch possible.
6 comments:
Hmmm. You need to show your prices for stocks in Canadian $$, not US.
I second john's post above. If I can have my portfolio in Canadian dollars (as the post seems to elude too), where do I make the setting change?
Thanks
I remember reading that the Google Finance concept was created by several engineers in India. Which, i'm bummed to see that we still don't have access to Indian markets.
This should be a no brainer as your competition is really moneycontrol.com and it's a horrible site.
I would love to be able to use Google App functions to call up indian equities prices.
thanks,
mrj
manish jain
http://celestri.org
Great Work! Could you say something about releases in other languages?
What about old Europe?
Thanks from Italy. :D
When you add Google Finance to iGoogle, it allows you to choose the US or Canadian version as options. However, when you have Candada selected, the links (ie portfolio) still go to finance.google.com instead of finance.google.ca (which renders differently of course).
I think "Andrea" is anxious about launching of Google finance services in Old Europe. Did it happened? I'm not aware of this. Google is doing great job by Globalizing the Financial Markets as well as people.Thanks!
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Vasu
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