Comments on: Google Finance http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2006/03/google-finance.html Opinions on Business, Technology & Life from Ravi Dronamraju Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:19:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: James http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2006/03/google-finance.html#comment-118554 James Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:00:46 +0000 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2006/03/google-finance.html#comment-118554 I was having a hard time trying to explain the Y!Finance "Symbol Lookup" failed to do a decent job to search for a ticker. I used "Hanes" as an example, actually the full company name is "Hanesbrands Inc." and the ticker is "HBI" You CAN NOT find it by using: 1. "hane" 2. "hanes" 3. "hanesbrand" You HAVE to typed "hanesbrands" to find it. I know exactly what's the problem is - The programmer added an extra space in front of the "*" or "%" in the SQL code so the search condition becomes SELECT Ticker, CompanyName FROM tblSymbol WHERE CompanyName LIKE "hane %" They should just remove the space so it becomes ... WHERE CompanyName LIKE "hane%" But when I told them in email, they said: ...... We were not able to replicate the following issue you reported. It may have been caused by our system, by your web browser, or perhaps your Internet connection. What the... And another email said ...... Please be aware that you are using the ticker symbol search incorrectly, the search box as seen on the front of all Yahoo! Finance pages is the ticker symbol search box, it is for ticker symbols only, not company names or abbreviations, ticker symbols only. ...... But the "Symbol Lookup" page said "To get a quote, enter a company name or stock symbol in the quote box above." The support personal is so dumb that he can't even understand where is the problem. By judging the reply comes in at "PST 1:45am" that might give u some clues where they are. I was having a hard time trying to explain the Y!Finance “Symbol Lookup” failed to do a decent job to search for a ticker. I used “Hanes” as an example, actually the full company name is “Hanesbrands Inc.” and the ticker is “HBI”

You CAN NOT find it by using:

1. “hane”
2. “hanes”
3. “hanesbrand”

You HAVE to typed “hanesbrands” to find it. I know exactly what’s the problem is - The programmer added an extra space in front of the “*” or “%” in the SQL code so the search condition becomes

SELECT Ticker, CompanyName
FROM tblSymbol
WHERE CompanyName LIKE “hane %”

They should just remove the space so it becomes
…
WHERE CompanyName LIKE “hane%”

But when I told them in email, they said:
……
We were not able to replicate the following issue you reported. It may have been caused by our system, by your web browser, or perhaps your Internet connection.

What the…

And another email said
……
Please be aware that you are using the ticker symbol search incorrectly, the search box as seen on the front of all Yahoo! Finance pages is the ticker symbol search box, it is for ticker symbols only, not company names or abbreviations, ticker symbols only.
……

But the “Symbol Lookup” page said

“To get a quote, enter a company name or stock symbol in the quote box above.”

The support personal is so dumb that he can’t even understand where is the problem. By judging the reply comes in at “PST 1:45am” that might give u some clues where they are.

]]> By: Derek http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2006/03/google-finance.html#comment-991 Derek Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:16:10 +0000 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2006/03/google-finance.html#comment-991 Just a heads-up, the individual you name as having told you about GFinance may not have been "supposed/allowed" to tell you in advance. It might be worth redacting her name, lest you accidentally get her in trouble. :-) Just a heads-up, the individual you name as having told you about GFinance may not have been “supposed/allowed” to tell you in advance. It might be worth redacting her name, lest you accidentally get her in trouble. :-)

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