Well, OK — exciting for me, anyway. Folks have been asking me for a few improvements to the site for a long time, and I’ve started to make a few of them.

First, the tracking spreadsheet is now updated again — it now includes every stock I’ve looked at, some 350 or so of them, but it is split between two spreadsheets (one of stocks teased by newsletters in 2007, the other, you guessed it! — 2008). Once again, I’ll promise to try to keep these up to date. We’ve got some new leaders and laggards, but, as you might guess, a strong majority if all the stocks I’ve looked at are down right now — and the club of 100%+ gainers remains very small, indeed (only one 2008 pick, and a few 2007 picks, make that cutoff).

And second, I have significantly upgraded the search for the site — so it is now a custom Google search, and with one search you can find out if there is anything of interest on StockGumshoe.com OR in the Stock Gumshoe Forum (you can also narrow it down once you’ve done the search, if you only want one site or the other). This should work much better, and it will also enable you to search the often very valuable comments, which was impossible with the old system. There is a search box at the top right of the page, and also one at the bottom. Give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems, there may still be a kink or two in the system.

So, you may be yawning already … but I’m happy to have gotten at least slightly updated here. There are some interesting new stocks atop the tracking spreadsheets if you’re interested in a little tour — and if you’re new to the site, you can go through and see if any of the stocks interest you, the individual writeups are linked from the spreadsheet, too.

I wish all my US readers a wonderful Independence Day, and I hope the rest of you get a break from the hubbub with Wall Street closed down for a day. Enjoy the weekend, and I’ll be filling up your inboxes with exciting ideas again next week.

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