In A Pathetic Attempt To Get More Clicks, Yahoo! Now Hides Date/Time Stamps On News, Complain!
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!
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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1Shawn_oti
March 26th, 2008 at 11:34 am
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
2Shawn_oti
March 26th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I’ve let Yahoo know of my intention to switch to Google as well …
3Ali
March 26th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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
4.Andy.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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
5.Andy.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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
6sam
March 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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.
7AP
March 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Wow.. I thought you were joking. Whats next, remove the volume information and put in on the “Key Statistics” page. This sucks..
8AP
March 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Wow.. I thought you were joking. Whats next, remove the volume information and put it on the “Key Statistics” page. This sucks..
9AP
March 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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
10timsykes
March 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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
11ainkurn
March 26th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Google Finance is a hellavu lot better than Yahoo. MSN is better than Yahoo IMO. Screw Yahoo!
12HeadLiner
March 26th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Just click on the Yahoo! Headlines link on the left margin. The timestamps are still there.
13be-the-ball(TIMBUCKS: $21)
March 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
complaint emailed, i wasn’t polite
14whats your name fool!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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!
15mitils
March 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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..
16Brian D
March 26th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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.
17Jay
March 26th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hi Tim…Any thoughts on Joez??? Jay
18personal finance blog
March 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
come on MS, Buy Yahoo…Yahoo getting worst…nice job on VION TIM!!
19dome
March 26th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
tim
where the credit crunch will end any idea ?
20Gal, founder of newsflashr.com
March 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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
21timsykes
March 26th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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.
22timsykes
March 26th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
woo hooo i can post freely now, thank god for software support people!
23Cameron Fous
March 26th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
We should find out whoever came up with this stupid idea and cut there fingers off!! This is so annoying……
24angrytrade
March 26th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
http://angrytrader123.blogspot.com/
u all suck
25Cameron Fous
March 27th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Hey angry how about you suck on this ))=======D ~~~ thanks :)
p.s. Time stamps are back up at yahoo :)
26timsykes
March 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
time stamps are back up…doubtful, but i’d like to think we had something to do with it!