When I wanted to review share prices, say for PEPsico, my go-to solution was to type “quote pep” into Google’s search window. From there I was just a click away from an elegant Google page that showed me a summary of PEP stats, a graph of PEP stock price, and recent financial news stories regarding PEP. The graph could be adjusted with a time-frame anywhere from 1 day to several years, and graphs of (up to a dozen or so) indexes or other stocks could be superimposed on the graph.
That page doesn’t appear for me anymore. Is it still available, using a different search or URL? Did Google take it down because it was competing with one of Google’s clients or advertisers?
Starting with the same ‘quote pep’ query I can eventually get to a Google page with a small subset of the features of the old page. I can make a graph comparing TWO stocks but not a DOZEN as was once possible. I’ll need to look for an alternative. Spot-checking a few of the possibilities, cnbc.com/quotes comes closest to the old Google functionality, but the interface is less friendly and more sluggish.
Once my questions are answered:
(1) Is the desireable Google interface still available?
(2) WHY did Google delete its good interface?
(3) What is the best site NOW for fast and friendly stock-price graphing?
I’ll be happy if the Mods move this thread to the BBQ Pit where I can express disappointment at Google.
BTW, another new annoyance with Google, that affects both its now-dysfunctional finance page AND its news search pages, is that years associated (by default on my machine) with graphs and stories are now presented in the Buddhist calendar instead of the Common Era. I do know that I can subtract 543 (this year is 2561 B.E. = 2018 + 543) but I resent Google’s insistence, since I have indicated U.S. preference for all Windows/Google/Chrome settings that have ever been presented to me, and even entered at least one ‘magic’ URL. Google can beat the World’s Chess and Go champions but can’t deduce my language/location preference even though I’ve told it 107 times??
If I search for “quote pep” I get the page you describe.
But a different stock I follow is bank of america (BAC) and my usual search term for that recently started taking me to a different version of the page without as many features.
Trying different searches I found that “NYSE:BAC” now takes me back to the complete quote, but “BAC price”, my longstanding search term still takes me to the crappy one today. No idea why, or why “quote pep” works fine for me, but NASDAQ:PEP might work for you.
Thanks for the hints. With a little experimentation and comparing of URL’s I now find that I can go to finance.google.com (which presents “Google Finance has been renovated.”) and enter PEP into its search box, and get the old page!
Apparently they didn’t remove the functionality; just revised the URL structures and it will take a while for their own search engines to catch up.
And dates even display as Common Era rather than Buddhist calendar.
***And now I cannot. *** The ‘finance.google.com’ urls take me to ‘Google…’ I’m sure Google still provides information with the right incantantations, but despite some clicking I never found the excellent old format, with lots of well-organized information and customizable graph.
In desperation I even tried Yahoo Finance. This just reminded me of why I hate all things Yahoo. As soon as I entered JNJ in the search bar, I got a video of Maria Bartiromo. (And the video is off-screen and muted! They not only waste my bandwidth, but hide the fact of this wastage from me.)
What gives? Surely everyone loved the old Google finance. Too hard to bundle with ads? Now a paid premium service?
I loved the old Google finance as well, and was pissed when everything was changed up. I couldn’t find out why it had changed nor how to use the new setup, and figured it was something to do with switching to a paid service. I now use Yahoo finance, which I dislike too, but at least it’s something.
Are there any other finance pages that anyone can recommend?
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