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Google is announcing this morning that after more than a year of work on the problem, Google Finance is now offering real-time price quotes for any stock traded on NASDAQ.

As Henry Blodget points out at Silicon Alley Insider, Yahoo! Finance has had real time quotes for a while now and the companies appear to be engaged in some minor squabbling about who's real time quotes are more real time. That's a secondary, albeit important, matter as far as we're concerned. Of more general interest is the increasing availability of and user expectation for real time information on the web.