Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people

Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by jstummbillig on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:42AM (#34736830)

How do you feel it compares to https://www.google.com/finance/ ?

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by toyg on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:58AM (#34736913)

I honestly thought they had shut down this. Maybe they just closed the Api?

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by pooper on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:11AM (#34737347)

I remember having a made up portfolio on Google finance where I pretended to invest money in the stock market by pretending to buy a d sell shares and record my performance.

It was terrible I lost a lot of imaginary money. Made me realize I'm not good at picking stocks. Anyway the point is that portfolio no longer exists on Google Finance. I think they rewrote the code behind Google finance at least twice.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by jonasdegendt on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:55AM (#34737265)

I was unaware this existed but when comparing a ticker on both platforms Yahoo offers a lot more information and metrics, it's nice that there's no click bait news articles being shown for every ticker you look up on Google Finance though.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by lawtalkinghuman on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:18AM (#34737820)

Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak.

Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equities, you can get (and download) data on stuff like dividend history, stock splits.

Just see for yourself. Pick a few assets and compare. It's night and day how much more detailed YF data is. The only real thing that GF has going for it is in Google Sheets you can put =GOOGLEFINANCE("symbol") and get the current price of that asset (you can also give it a second argument for other attributes, but the data on offer is pretty limited compared to YF).

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by shyn3 on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:46AM (#34738439)

Google finance used to be great and then it went to crap. Yahoo stayed the same. Also let's you export historical prices.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by rileymat2 on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:46AM (#34739525)

It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by tablespoon on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:47AM (#34740300)

> It is unbelievable what they did to it, I can’t fathom a reason.

Was it one of those "We NEED to update the UI for $CURRENT_YEAR fashions!," that drops half the features for "simplicity"?

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by shyn3 on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:22PM (#34749554)

Look at it on way back archive and yes.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by Workaccount2 on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:55AM (#34741327)

Things (generally) sell better when made for a 6th grade level.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by matwood on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:14AM (#34740672)

Google Finance looks nicer on the surface, but doesn't have nearly as much data. It doesn't have options for example. I feel like Google had a great opportunity with finance and let it wither like so many other things.

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Re:Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people by rileymat2 on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:19AM (#34741722)

No, it did not just wither, it was actively sabotaged for my use cases by removing data I used to use. It happened overnight with a redesign.

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