You’ve heard of realtime stock quotes. Nearly every finance site has those. Now Google Finance is adding realtime news streams. If you go to its market news page, the stories will update automatically without refreshing the page, kind of like updates on FriendFeed but not as frequent.
Looking at it now, new stories are updating only every minute or two, so I’m not sure how useful this is going to be most of the time. But when a stock-related story is breaking, it could be very compelling, giving you a sense of how quickly market information is reported.
When new headlines break every 10 or 15 seconds or so, it becomes a new way to consume news. You can sit there and literally watch the news as headlines scroll down automatically.
Perhaps that is why the news stream will only be turned on during trading hours. It switches back to the static news page 90 minutes after trading ends in the U.S. and starts up again the next morning 90 minutes before. Although it seems silly to me to turn the feature on and off. If the page isn’t moving, that simply means no news is breaking. People will figure that out. This is just becoming the way people consume news, whether on Twitter, Facebook, or news sites. We autorefresh headlines on TechCrunch, for instance.
You can’t be half-realtime.
Google has almost every kind of service, beats almost every competitor.
True dat!
+1
Nothing is loading for me…I’ve tried several times now.
Oh snap, you hear that Bloomberg?! They are coming for you and your 2K/mo terminals.
“They are coming for you…”
Since Google just aggregates content instead of actually creating it, Google’s not “coming for” any original news provider. Of all the sources you see streaming I’d venture to say that you will never see “Google” as the original source (not yet at least).
If were no major news providers placing their stories online, Google would not have any major news provider content to display.
I don’t know if Bloomberg will be one of the online sources that Google aggregates their information from, but if they are, Bloomberg, as the original content creator, will still have the news first.
As far as real time quotes go… Google doing this will just prompt others to do the same, which is good. Any company with a lot of money that wanted to provide real time quotes on their web site has been able to access real time market data for a while now. I’m surprised more have not done so already.
real time, market manipulating, SEC ignoring FUD…. how fantastic.
hahahah awesome Riley.
Wow. it’s a good news for users like me!
Stock price is updating in real-time as well.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG
Tech Crunch is right. Being half real-time is like being half pregnant, you either are or you’re not.
If you open up the Google page: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG
then open that page in another window and the prices are different! That’s auto-refresh
Auto refresh / near time doesn’t scale.
The more users they get, the more they will need to wind back the auto-refresh rate.
Sure, whether it is gossip or finance, real time is the next Wave.
http://bit.ly/everywood_app – RealTime Gossip
Duh that’s what it’s for….TRADERS! I am one
It’s not real time BTW….If your serious anyway you’ll have a brokerage that streams level II for nasdaq or what not….
I guess Wall Street Journal losers don’t won’t to be part of this.
http://zvoid.com had the same idea 5 months ago and it updates the news every one second
Speaking of refreshing headlines on Techcrunch. Why the heck do you do that?! It is beyond irritating. I will be reading the intro to an article and then out of the blue the page refreshes. If I wanted the darn page to refresh to get the latest content I would click the refresh button. That’s what it’s there for!
Yahoo has real time feeds too – this one for google was last updated 15mins ago:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GOOG
So the feature is the ajax request and the animated update?
Yeah – Bloomberg – watch out…
well its a cool feature that they have added but it should be fast because Google is been used all over the world for many things so hope that they would be doing is so they are g wick in grasping things and sorting them out
Nothing on this DAMN website but some google non-sense…
google change background color of their webpage to red..
google change font-size of their web page to blue..
people, there are great companies doing some amazing things…
You google fanboys need to stop this…
publishing any kind of junk about google… some bored developer change a font color and it makes headlines… gosh
AOL already has this capability on their Money and Finance site and their Daily Finance site and app. Search a ticker and you get real time news about the company. There are relevancy settings as well.