Search Engine Journal has been monitoring tell-tale signs that Google Finance may be about to launch. Loren Baker writes:

“Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance. After visitng the referring URL, I saw that the live Google 404 “The requested URL /finance was not found on this server.” Error which usually leads to a hint that Google is launching a new service.”

Let’s hope it goes better than some recent launches, like Google Pages, which has been suspended for a while.