Google Has a Crush on Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a cool company. Even Google thinks so. How do I know what Google is thinking. Well, for starters, I have ESP. My friend happens to have ESPN. And a cousin of mine has ESPN 2.
(Just for fun: Hi Mike M.)
Btw, when I said that “I have ESP”, you were probably thinking “yeah right”. Hehe. Of course I am aware of this as well, thanks to my telepathic powers. FYI, if I happen to be more comfortable chatting with someone in person versus communicating with someone from a distance, would this then render me as “telepathetic“?
We return to the subject on hand. Cisco. So, Google has a beta product called Google Finance. There was a school of thought to name their product Yahoo Finance, but alas, the Google branding folks did not think this was a good idea.
Now, within the world of Google Finance, where the language of the land is Googlian, you can search for information on publicly trading companies. For example, if you wanted to see how much revenue the mafia has generated this past quarter, you would simply enter trading symbol “MOB” into the search box.
In addition to providing stock quotes, Google Finance has much more information on companies. The site features links to recent articles, management information and nascent blog entries.
Anyways, beneath the search box, Google provides two examples (e.g.) for stock symbols. One of them is “GOOG’. Go figure. And the other one is none other than “CSCO”, which is CISCO.
