Moneyville is a new site from the publishers of the Toronto Star. It’s aimed at people that are starting to manage their money and looking to get more actively involved in their finances. It launched today and some of the sites features were written yesterday by Star columnist Ellen Roseman.

Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world, however it’s amazing how it makes most of it’s money on just a few products. The Office and Windows products far outweigh any contribution by all their other services, including all of their online ventures, mobile ventures, hardware and gaming.

Google Finance recently announced Google Investing Indexes. It’s an index based on keyword searches of the Google engine tied to an economic activity. For instance the Auto Buyers Index graphs the search terms “car, blue book, toyota, kelly book”.

What’s funny is how pervasive Yahoo Finance is. In the Google Finance and Insurance Index, “Yahoo” is one of the search terms. In the Google Investing Index, “Yahoo Finance” is used as a search term.

Yahoo still dominates the financial aggregation portals, with Google Finance lagging quite a bit. At least Google doesn’t try to hide this fact.

Every day, the Globe and Mail has been answering questions people have about the markets. The answers are a contribution of a number of their writers instead of a single author, but the quality and value of the information is suprisingly good, especially for a newspaper. Check out the article, today’s question is about buying gold.