Well, it’s late in Washington DC, and having flown from Rochester New York to Chicago last night to do a training session at Accenture, and then to DC this afternoon for an Information Today meeting, my eyes are a bit blurry–BUT–I wanted to take a look at Google Finance anyway.

My first impression was quite positive–after linking to the site, you can enter a company name or stock symbol, and you’ll get a nicely formatted page of information back–a one paragraph company description, some key financial and directory data, a stock chart if a public company, names and titles of top executives, recent news, related firms, recent blog discussions, and a few other extras.

Nothing here is new or very significant, and you can get most of this on the free Hoovers site, among other places. But, it’s all very intuitively and neatly displayed, the news and blogs are very timely, and there are some very interesting customization features.

So, its the package that Google’s put together that’s very appealing here–especially if you’re already a Google user and you want a very fast snapshot about a North American firm–public or private. And we think integrating recent relevant blog postings works extremely well too.

Nothing revolutionary here by any means–but it’s a very appealing start. We’ll be interested in how this evolves.

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