Google Finance Still An Also-Ran. Here's How to Fix It

|

Googlefinance_2 Doug McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St tells the sad story of Google Finance, which despite having many cool, innovative features and a humongous butt-kicking parent, still has a pathetically small user base. How small? According to McIntyre, it's in the same league as SmartMoney and FastCompany.com, about 700,000 users a month (fine for a ported print magazine, awful for a global web behemoth). This compares to a user base of 12 million at AOL Finance.

McIntyre has several thoughts on this unfortunate state of affairs, and we agree with his thesis: Google Finance is apparently as big as its parent wants it to be.

How could Google drive more traffic to Finance? By adding a permanent link to the front page (in addition to the one in the scroll-down list). Google's religious obsession with keeping the front page "clean" has long outlived its usefulness. We're not suggesting Google make the front page look like a NASCAR hood. We are suggesting it make it easier to find/access some of the awesome tools and content it has built. Many mainstream Internet users don't want to start with "search." Adding permanent links wouldn't be evil--it would just be a lot more convenient. (Please, comment away on how you would immediately boycott Google if it ever did anything so commercially crass. We suspect it's a load of hooey, but it will win you instant applause.)



< Prev. Story
Next Story >

12 Comments

123 said:
如果要說世界有沒有一種不可或缺的東西那我想情趣用品就是一種,他不但增加情趣還增加我們的生活樂趣,夫妻間的新鮮度也都靠情趣用品所以我想它真的是一種很好的東西,晚上就讓我們享受情趣浪漫的夜晚吧,夫妻或者是男女朋友在一起久了情趣早就沒有了,別想要換女友只要換個情趣用品就可以了,各國的情趣精品做的都很好,但是我們台灣的也不錯情趣用品很精緻,老婆今晚我就要情趣,那天經過情人歡愉用品,裡面賣的東西真的很便宜,或是去情惑用品性哥也都有很多好東西,另外情人用品性哥也滿推薦的,最實在的情趣用品

AIO交友愛情館,情人歡愉用品,美女視訊,情色交友,情人用品性哥,視訊交友,辣妹視訊,美女交友,性愛,嘟嘟成人網,按摩棒,震動按摩棒,微調按摩棒,情趣按摩棒,逼真按摩棒,G點,跳蛋,跳蛋,跳蛋,性感內衣,飛機杯,充氣娃娃,情趣娃娃,角色扮演,性感睡衣,後庭區,SM,潤滑液,情趣禮物,威而柔,香水,精油,芳香精油,自慰,自慰套,性感吊帶襪,情趣用品加盟,跳蛋情人娜娜,情人節禮物,情人節,吊帶襪,辣妹視訊,美女交友,情色交友,成人交友,視訊聊天室,美女視訊,視訊美女,情色視訊,免費視訊聊天,視訊交友,視訊聊天,AIO交友愛情館,嘟嘟成人網,成人貼圖,成人網站 AIO交友愛情館,情色,情色貼圖,情色文學,情色交友,色情聊天室,色情小說,七夕情人節,色情,情色視訊,情色電影,色情網站,辣妹視訊,視訊聊天室,情色視訊,免費視訊聊天,視訊聊天,美女視訊,視訊美女,美女交友,美女,情色交友,成人交友,自拍,本土自拍,情人視訊網,視訊交友90739,生日禮物,情色論壇,正妹牆



moom said:
If they really want to keep things "clean" they could at least have some kind of herarchical menu you can drill down into. The current set up is not user friendly.

Dave said:
Yahoo was first. A direct link will not change that. Financial type people are more adverse to change so a change to Google is not likely.

Benjamin Bloom said:
If Google is so good at knowing what content is relevant, couldn't they alter the set of links on the home page to drive more traffic to their own services?

howard lindzon said:
stop helping them!

howard lindzon said:
stop helping them!

howard lindzon said:
stop helping them!

douglas mcintyre said:
I think it is a brilliant idea. Finding things at Google beyond search is difficult, and I use the site 20 times a day.

Henry Blodget said:
If not "Drudge-like" (the folks at the Googleplex would probably commit suicide at that analogy), at least a simple list of permanent links. It's just a lot easier to click than search.

Dave said:
Why can't Google just set up a simple Drudge-like front page with links aplenty, categorically-separated? It would hardly raise an eyebrow, no?

Join the discussion