Last week's launch of Google Finance revived the entire "Is Google A
Portal" question. I previously wrote in my article on how I saw Google
Finance as being closer to Google's search mission than some other
products it has launched. Still, Google's got plenty of other things
that firmly put them into the "stealth portal" or "Portal 2.0" category
for me. But does it matter if Google's a portal? One reader recently
asked me this. Maybe not; maybe so, especially given their own denials.
Below, a further look at that, plus some related commentary around the
web