MercuryNews.com | 03/20/2006 | Google launches financial Web site

"Google launched a financial Web site late Monday, Google Finance, which once again puts the Mountain View search giant in direct competition with Yahoo.The site, http://finance.google.com, provides stock charts, news and chat rooms, much like Yahoo Finance, the most popular finance site on the Web. Analysts say Google Finance makes several improvements over Yahoo's, but the changes aren't so radical as to confuse people who are already familiar with Yahoo Finance."