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Posted by Ben Softness, Google Finance Support Lead As part of our continuing effort to provide quick and easily accessible answers to your concerns and questions about Google Finance, we recently launched our brand new online help center. You can find the help center by clicking "About Google Finance" at the bottom of any Google Finance page or by pointing your browser to http://www.google.com/support/finance. Whether you want to learn how to use a particular feature or seek information about how Google Finance works, the help center is your best resource. Plus, we've listed the five most common questions and made the entire site searchable from any help center page, so accessing the information that's most relevant to you is easier than ever. If you have feedback, we'd love to hear from you. While we can't promise an answer to every message we receive, know that we read everything you send us and that we use your feedback to improve Google Finance.

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer When we study how people make and gather notes when researching companies online, almost everyone tends to u se a word processor, a spreadsheet, or (sadly) s craps of paper . Whatever they use, there seems to be consensus that they're generally dissatisfied with the approach and tools they use. We have something you may be unaware of which could solve some of these same problems. It's called Google Notebook . Key features: It uses a browser plugin -- you can make notes no matter what website you're on. Create a notebook for each company you're researching to stay organized. Collaborate on notebooks with specific friends, coworkers, clients, investment club members. Search your notes to locate anything easily. No typing needed -- just highlight the text on the screen and drop it into your notes with one click. Visit the Google Notebook website (http://www.google.com/notebook/) or take the Google Notebook tour . Once you d...

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer There are some great Finance gadgets available on iGoogle (personalized Google search page), but it can be challenging to find the best Finance gadgets. Recently the iGoogle team have introduced the 'Share tab' feature which allows you to share a whole tab of gadgets. This has allowed us to pull together a collection of some of our favorite iGoogle gadgets and share them with you. If you click on the link below you will see an invitation to create a new iGoogle tab. Add a Google Finance recommended iGoogle tab Go ahead and click on the blue 'Add to iGoogle' button and it will create the new tab for you with these suggested gadgets. You should see something similar to the screenshot below. Now every time you do a web search you can view a quick overview of the market and see what is moving and shaking in your portfolios One enhancement I would recommend is to add some Finance RSS feeds to the Google reader gadget. If you have ...

Posted by Matthew Simmons - Market Data Gnome Many of you have noticed that we had a gap in our NTDOY charts, as well as with some other ADRs. I've fixed NTDOY, and am working on fixing the others. Thanks for the heads up, and please do report data errors as this is the best way we can quickly detect and resolve them.

Posted by Dion Loy, Google Finance engineer Today we're pulling the wraps off Google Finance Canada , a localized version of Google Finance tailored for Canadian investors. One of our top requests has been for localized market information, presented of course in a useful and accessible format. We think Google Finance Canada addresses this by presenting top news and company news from Canadian sources, economic data from the Bank of Canada, multi-currency portfolios, and Canadian equity and mutual fund data. The main Google.com search experience has also been improved with Canadian stock onebox results . But speaking as a Canadian, my favourite feature is the company search that prioritizes Canadian companies (no more typing in Canadian exchange prefixes!). What makes this release extra-special for us is the fact that it was put together by a distributed team of full-time and 20-percent-time engineers. (All the Google engineers may devote 20 percent of his or her work time towards a...

Posted by Dave Marmaros, Technical Lead, Google Calendar Want to know how your favorite stock is doing each day? Now you can! Google Calendar and Google Finance have teamed up to provide daily stock quotes. Try searching for your favorite stock symbol in Calendar: You will then be able to able to see the close price as an event each day.

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance First things first: thanks to all of you who posted so many great comments. We've enjoyed reading them and are excited to try this Q&A thing out. So now to the good stuff: Internationalization. There are a lot of suggestions to add quotes from various international markets including Australia and India. We can assure you that we are committed to providing a comprehensive online finance product and we do believe internationalization is important. Currently, Google Finance offers quotes from many international stock exchanges including Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Paris, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Toronto. It's great to have your input as to which markets should be our top priority. Stay tuned! Tools. Many of you have asked for more tools like stock screeners. There are a bunch of online finance sites with stock screeners, but they could probably use some updating. We have a Noogler (a.k.a. "new ...