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by InspiredIdiot 1353 days ago
The problem is the google chart puts the zero line for the two stocks at their IPO date even though they have different IPO dates, as almost any two stocks you choose to compare would. If you're going to compare the two stocks at the same point in time, they should probably be both at zero on the first day when they both have a price, as Yahoo's chart does (switch to 5Y).

I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why Google Finance would graph stocks this way. The only thing I can think is they didn't consider the intersection of "comparing stocks" and "they might have IPOed in the time range".

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Clearly the engineers they put on the project could only do the leetcode mediums instead of hards.
No, they launched the service, took their promotions and then left to launch newer products for more promotions. No one was left to improve the existing product.
I'm sure they assumed it would be eliminated before anyone noticed