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How to Use Google to Find Stock and Mutual Fund Quotes
As you probably know, the simple Google search box is capable of many amazing things. One of those things is being able to automatically recognize a stock symbol and look up that stock’s associated quote. All you have to do is type in the ticker symbol into any Google search box and you will see the stock quote.
For example, if you just type the letter f into Google’s search box, you will see Ford Motor Company’s stock quote atop of the 3.35 billion other search results for the letter f.
Google is also capable of finding mutual fund quotes. If you type in IDTOX, a popular ING mutual fund, you will see its quote atop the search results, as shown below:
Those two examples both worked out well. However, let’s say you want to see how XM Satellite Radio’s stock is doing. If you simply type XM into the search box, things don’t go so smoothly, as you can see below.
To take care of this problem, you can use the stock operator. Just type stock: in front of the company you are looking for and voila, Google is able to find it.
As you can see, you may notice that some stocks don’t always use the symbol that could be best-matched to them. XM Radio’s stock symbol is actually XMSR.
You may have guessed that when you use the stock: operator, you don’t even need to know the symbol of the company. For example, if you wanted to see how the maker of Cheerios, General Mills, is doing financially you can type in stock: General Mills. Almost as if by magic, Google looks up the company and finds its stock quote and returns it to you in only 0.67 seconds.
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