Update Company information in Google Finance

A client of mine is a publicly traded company, and while looking at their company information in Google Finance, I noticed that the “Company Summary” had some inconsistent information. I wasn’t immediately sure what to do to correct it, but soon found the correct place. If you would like to change any information about a company in Google finance, they list the sources of their data here:

http://www.google.com/googlefinance/faq.html#remove

It’s a list of email contacts for the source or partner of their information.

Specifically, here is the useful info.

I’m concerned about content I’ve located in Google Finance. Would you please change or remove it?
If you see something wrong, Google and our partners want to know about it. Here’s the appropriate contact info for various Google Finance features and the corresponding content partner.

  1. News — http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/about_google_news.html
  2. Blog results — http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.html
  3. Public Company data — Reuters webmaster.reuters@custhelp.com
  4. Private Company data — Hoovers update@hoovers.com
  5. Mutual Funds — Morningstar dataquestions@morningstar.com
  6. Anything else, including crawled data and photos
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Setting up Wordpress

Wordpress has become the blog engine of choice these days as it’s super easy to set up, unbelievably flexible, and best of all, free. I’ve set it up for myself, clients, and friends probably over 30 times. Each time I get a bit faster at it, and each time I try and make sure I remember all the little, simple things you can do to make the most of your new blog. Here is my quicklist of don’t forgets. (for this tutorial, I’m assuming that you’re hosting your own blog, and it is not a wordpress.com hosted solution.)

1. Get yourself some hosting. I use
bluehost
(aff) because it is amazingly quick to get started, they are super cheap, their sites run very fast, and they’re incredibly responsive whenever I have a problem. They also give you a free domain for using their service, so you don’t even have to pay for your domain…

2. While bluehost(aff) offers 1-click installs, I always recommend people just go and download the newest version of the software from Wordpress. You’ll get the most recent version with any security issues patched. Download it here.
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Earners Blog Review

Part of getting better at things, is knowing where to look for the information. And for me, getting even better means consistently reading as much as I can from people who really understand whatever it is I’m trying to improve at. One of my hobbies is Internet Marketing. While I’m by no means even a hack Internet Marketer, I’m learning as much as I can, and am constantly trying new things. Someday, I hope my day will come, but for now, I consume as much information as possible. And where I look is EarnersBlog.

I stumbled upon this site very recently, and I think I’ve already read every post that’s been written. I’m constantly checking my feed reader, hoping for new posts, and always reading the entire post. I use Google Reader, and for every post that comes in, I find myself hitting “V” to open the full post in another window, allowing me to read it all (note: his feed does not post the entire article, which is why I go to his site to finish reading). I normally get annoyed by this, but I’m glad in the case of EarnersBlog as it allows me to keep valuable posts open in my tabs so I don’t forget about them, and can continue to go back and read over things again. So far, I’ve found these posts to be very valuable:

$800 a day with Yahoo Answers: The title says it all. Answer people’s questions with concise, helpful answers, but take advantage of the opportunity to include your own affiliate links. And honestly, the better your answer, the more chance you’ll have to convert. Everybody wins (unless you’re lying to point people to your affiliate products, which isn’t very nice, but that’s up to all of us to find our comfort zone. I’ll keep to suggesting things I believe in.)
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Using Textile

I find Textile somewhat frustrating. I’m not really sure it’s better than HTML, because I have to learn so many random codes now. While it may be simpler than HTML, I’m not really sure it’s any easier to learn, especially since HTML actually uses tags that make sense semantically. For instance <strong> makes sense to me. I don’t have trouble remembering that. *strong* seems faster, but only once I’ve memorized it.

Anyway, I have to use it often, so here is my list of resources:

Textile Resources:

http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/
This site will take standard text, or textile input and output it as HTML. This lets you play with textile and dial in exactly how your site will look. This is great if you know HTML and are trying to learn textile for wikis or other CMS that requires textile input.

http://hobix.com/textile/
This is just a big list of tags ordered logically, with their HTML equivalent and a preview of how it would render.

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