Comments on: Lock, stocks and Google Finance barrels onto scene http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060321/3060/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Make You Go Hmm: » Y! Finance biggest problems are stagnation and ad saturation http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060321/3060/#comment-61189 Make You Go Hmm: » Y! Finance biggest problems are stagnation and ad saturation Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:51:27 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060321/3060/#comment-61189 [...] My problem with Y! Finance — and Yahoo in general, frankly — isn’t only what Jeremy describes, but the level of ad saturation. Compare that to Google Finance with no ads and there’s a big difference in usability. This is why I so quickly wrote that I was switching from Y! Finance to Google Finance. A decision for me based purely on asthetics and overall page value. Let’s face it that two competing services with virtually the same features and one has six ads and the other has zero ads, which is better? [...] […] My problem with Y! Finance — and Yahoo in general, frankly — isn’t only what Jeremy describes, but the level of ad saturation. Compare that to Google Finance with no ads and there’s a big difference in usability. This is why I so quickly wrote that I was switching from Y! Finance to Google Finance. A decision for me based purely on asthetics and overall page value. Let’s face it that two competing services with virtually the same features and one has six ads and the other has zero ads, which is better? […]

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