Google should make improvements to its Blog search and support a new ticker spec for RSS.

I've addressed these topics here.
http://irwebreport.blogsome.com/2006/03/24/google-finance-spam-problem-undermines-credibility/

Seth is correct!! I am getting more inbound hits from Google.finance then any other place for certain keyu company's. Not sure if this really a hit or not.. but I wrote here http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/google_finance_.html

It appears this post made it to google finance. hahaha.

as a side bar has anyone noticed that if you want to check trading activity of the C level Exeuctive (under Management) of any company. the link points to Yahoo Finance!!

Hee hee hee ... I guess appearing on the GOOG page rather proves your point about "if you only focus on your content and not on any kind of positioning optimization, good positioning often comes natural." :-) . After all, this post is highly relevant good content :-). Though a little bit of positioning optimization does help, it can happen organically.