Google Finance to go real-time?

Any site that offers free stock quotes and charts are delayed 15 or 20 minutes. Google is working on a deal to start offering free, real-time streaming information.

This is a pretty big deal, and shows you just how far Google's reach is. It also opens the door to a lot of new possibilities. I mean... if they're going to give us real-time quotes, how long until they'll let us make free trades, perhaps utilizing Google Checkout?

No industry is safe from Google's need to constantly ask the question, "Wait, what's up with that? That seems pretty bass-ackwards...".