"However, some worry that this trend may harm individual and less-sophisticated investors who cannot access the blogs and websites as quickly as professionals. Others worry that not everyone will get the information."
Putting the stuff on a public website with a simple url makes it HARDER for non-professionals to access? Someone clue me in to their reasoning as to why.
If receiving investment information via blog is a problem for you, maybe you shouldn't be inventing in google. As Warren Buffett says: invest in what you know.
Warren Buffet is a full time investor, so that's a viable strategy for him. For most people "invest in what you know" is equivalent to "invest in the industry you work in" which is a bad strategy. Much better is to invest in low-cost index funds, a strategy that could be summed up as "don't know what you're investing in."
+1. Most of them have a rather hazy idea of what they are doing and are stuck in the last century technology-wise. Example: at least one wire releases time-critical information in HTML with multimegabyte (yes, megabyte) stylesheets which are delivered inline. And they won't change the format.
TABLE.t {
BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN-LEFT: -5.4pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse
}
It sure was a great way to attact investitors to Google's site. More of a way to market a google product (http://investor.google.com/), than anything else. Conventional media may not like it, but that is understandable, as the product marketed by google competes with such conventional media (without charging for it).
Putting the stuff on a public website with a simple url makes it HARDER for non-professionals to access? Someone clue me in to their reasoning as to why.