Their charting is one of the best that i've seen and it has this feature where is correlates the release of news with the pricing on the graph which I've found to be such a great feature
I find yahoo financial better and more customisable, (I used google and yahoo in conjunction for a time to see which I preferred) particularly the portfolio presentation, which is odd as I use google for just about everything else (google calendar, google mail, goggle maps etc) That said, I haven't been back to google finance for 6 months.
I using city falcon site for tracking news. So far it's working for me as they are news aggregator over 2000+ news sources and many personalisations features. This what my premium watchlist looks like Hope this helps.