Note: It's not a result provided by a neutral algorithm. Contrary to what debunkers want to say, it has been hard coded.
For example, search for other often occuring words such as those:
"over"
"before"
"using"
"between"
Those searches give a listing of companies having these words in their description.
Searching for "sell" redirects straight to Apple stock even though many other descriptions have this word in them. Several have way higher density of the "sell" word than the Apple description.
The redirect for "buy" search is reasonable as the Best Buy has it in its name. Apple has no sell in its name.
It's fishy to say the least.
EDIT:
This can be proven even further by running a specialized search query to the main google.com page:
site:finance.google.com sell "quotes & news"
If you use this query, which uses the neutral algo, you won't see APPLE anywhere near the top.
It doesn't use "the" neutral algorithm, it uses a neutral algorithm, one that's not based on keywords at all, but PageRank. The finance sites search (presumably) has nothing to do with individual result pages PageRank and therefore it would return completely different results to the main google search algorithm.
Otherwise, why does 'site:finance.google.com facebook "quotes & news"' not return Facebook? Or even 'site:finance.google.com appl "quotes & news"' not return Apple?
"Proven" your ass. ;-) Se the other posts about "worst" -> Konami, which I show to be simple result of ranking. The thing is, when some term's #1 result strongly dominate other results, Google Finance will go "feeling lucky"-style instead of displaying a list.
For example, search for other often occuring words such as those:
"over" "before" "using" "between"
Those searches give a listing of companies having these words in their description.
Searching for "sell" redirects straight to Apple stock even though many other descriptions have this word in them. Several have way higher density of the "sell" word than the Apple description.
The redirect for "buy" search is reasonable as the Best Buy has it in its name. Apple has no sell in its name.
It's fishy to say the least.
EDIT:
This can be proven even further by running a specialized search query to the main google.com page:
site:finance.google.com sell "quotes & news"
If you use this query, which uses the neutral algo, you won't see APPLE anywhere near the top.