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In A Pathetic Attempt To Get More Clicks, Yahoo! Now Hides Date/Time Stamps On News, Complain!

Posted by timothysykes on Wed 26th of Mar, 2008 11:14:00 AM
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UPDATE: Yahoo! went back to showing the timestamps, they don’t suck anymore…I think out complaining helped, good work guys!

Looks like Yahoo! Finance has decided to try to get more clicks by hiding the date/time stamps of the news on each stock’s main page! How can you show a list of headlines/news/PRs without their corresponding dates and times? I mean this just sounds crazy, right? Now, if you’re not a trader, you probly don’t care, but for those of us who spend hours upon hours digging through research and seeing how news / PRs affect stock prices, this is HUGE. We don’t want to waste time clicking on meaningless news just to see what day/time it came out!

yahoo In A Pathetic Attempt To Get More Clicks, Yahoo! Now Hides Date/Time Stamps On News, Complain!

For example, take a classic microcrapper momo play like SEED who on Monday morning updated investors about their new seeds. With Yahoo!’s new rules in place, you must click the stupid PR to see that it came out pre-market at 8:30am. It was good news so the stock rose a few cents, but it wasn’t anything huge. But on Tuesday, it was a whole new story—agriculture stocks were jamming and SEED rose nearly $2. If you go to SEED’s main Yahoo! Finance page, do you see the date/time for this PR? Or for any other news?

Some flunky from thestreet.com attributed the rise to that Monday morning news, which those of us who know what time the original PR came out to be ridiculous considering it came out pre-market, not after-hours, so there was a whole day for suckers / pumpers to try to get some momentum behind the stock, which they failed to do. Luckily, the hot agri sector bailed them out on Tuesday.

Which brings me to my point—unless you do some clicking and digging, you’re not gonna understand the factors behind what moves these stocks. TheStreet.com is staffed by too many journalists who’ve never made a dollar in the markets, so I can forgive them, somewhat. But by taking away the date/time stamps on news in a PATHETIC attempt to get more clicks/page views, Yahoo! is wasting my time, making it more difficult to research and hurting everyone’s ability to learn this great game.

That is not cool. That is sad. I urge you to email Yahoo! and complain–tell them how we don’t give a f%^# about their page views/ failing business, their focus should be on displaying information, all information!

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  • Shawn_oti
    I've actually been getting used to Google Finance. It's not quite up to Yahoo in terms of information, but quick page loads and newsbites are easy to find (and they are timestamped)

    http://finance.google.com
  • Shawn_oti
    I've let Yahoo know of my intention to switch to Google as well ...
  • Ali
    Yes me too. Google is my main source for news but I have Yahoo open on the side. I like how directly on the charts, Google posts letters corresponding to headlines for that day.Yahoo is going to lose a lot of customers because of this
  • What the F-Bomb. I like msn anyways for finance. I was a yahoo man since I started using the internet, but more and more I am liking google.

    BAD Move Yahoo
  • What the F-Bomb. I like msn anyways for finance. I was a yahoo man since I started using the internet, but more and more I am liking google.

    BAD Move Yahoo

    Here my pathetic attempt for more clicks

    http://www.nevadarocketclub.com
    http://andrewyoungia.blogspot.com
  • sam
    yes yahoo sucks for this but if you click headlines on the left under news and info the dates remain. so you dont have to click each one to check date/time.
  • AP
    Wow.. I thought you were joking. Whats next, remove the volume information and put in on the "Key Statistics" page. This sucks..
  • AP
    Wow.. I thought you were joking. Whats next, remove the volume information and put it on the "Key Statistics" page. This sucks..
  • AP
    I figured out a workaround. Go To http://ca.finance.yahoo.com it is the canadian version of yahoo and you can still pull up all US tickers (only thing missing is link to message boards).

    You're welcome.

    AP
  • timsykes
    we shouldn't have to click a sidebar or go to the canadian site just to see the dat/time of news, this is utterly ridiculous and i'm countin on all of u to complain
  • Google Finance is a hellavu lot better than Yahoo. MSN is better than Yahoo IMO. Screw Yahoo!
  • HeadLiner
    Just click on the Yahoo! Headlines link on the left margin. The timestamps are still there.
  • be-the-ball
    complaint emailed, i wasn't polite
  • whats your name fool!!!
    yo son i'm the stock trader word. Check out Http://financehustler.blopspot.com do your self a favor and check out the latest and greatests!
  • mitils
    for some crazy stupid reason i am addicted to yahoo ...i know it is not the best...but it was the first one i ever used....and shifting is hard!!!!
    anyways.. you can subscribe to rss feeds of your potential plays,,you would see the exact time stamp...and make your research easier..
    i would move to google if they had bar charts..
  • Brian D
    Had to respond to your comment on my SNTS short I held 900 over night at $3.14 and got out at $2.93. Nice and quick $190ish profit.
  • Jay
    Hi Tim...Any thoughts on Joez??? Jay
  • come on MS, Buy Yahoo...Yahoo getting worst...nice job on VION TIM!!
  • dome
    tim

    where the credit crunch will end any idea ?
  • Tim --

    The thing about sites like Yahoo and Google News is that you don't know WHY certain headlines make it to the top of their news pages ... which could lead to biases / corruption ... that's the #1 problem we've solved with our new, fully automated system, news headlines make it to the top of the news page based on the sheer volume of keywords found in headlines (gathered from all the most credible news sources).

    http://www.newsflashr.com ... news headlines WITH the timestamp :)

    In effect this is the "collective intelligence" of all the news editors ... our friend, Andrew Horowitz, likes to call this the "collective stupidity", but as mentioned, these are the most credible news sources that we're linking to!

    Anyways, didn't you once tell me you're not into news?
    -Gal
  • timsykes
    Newsflashr does rock, and i'm not into news, breaking news that is...but i will look back on a stock's chart to see how people reacted to that news.
  • timsykes
    woo hooo i can post freely now, thank god for software support people!
  • We should find out whoever came up with this stupid idea and cut there fingers off!! This is so annoying......
  • Hey angry how about you suck on this ))=======D ~~~ thanks :)

    p.s. Time stamps are back up at yahoo :)
  • timsykes
    time stamps are back up...doubtful, but i'd like to think we had something to do with it!
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