pshea - 11:11 pm on Mar 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

Over the past year or two I have wondered when G was going to get on the finance stick. Now that they have, it is a just-OK-to-sub-par start. The graph link to news items is spectacular but the page design lacks any elegance whatsoever. The pictures of the Board of Directors and the rollovers to bio and trading activity is a nice feature. But big thumbs down to linking to Yahoo for so much of their data! It screams catch up and that is a big letdown for G admirers who, like me, much prefer the view as the lead dog. They could have crafted the finance home page to be something other than the zero that it is. The Discussion Groups are going to take some getting used to, my first impression is well, not impressed.

The 'More headlines' link at the end of the news listing takes you to news.google and that is a big mistake. If I want finance, I want to stay in finance, if I want general news, I'll go to news. I'm glad to see that gfinance is here, but I wish they had it more fleshed out before putting it into the open network and yes I do know it is beta. But have they forgotten they are Google and that the bar is higher for them?