SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 - Harnessing yet another data category to its search-engine prowess, Google is introducing a financial information service intended to compete directly with offerings from Microsoft, Yahoo and other sources, Google executives said Monday. Google said the service, at finance.google.com, would distinguish itself by providing stock charts with interactive qualities like those
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