Friday, August 8, 2008

Google Helps People Keep Updated With the Beijing Olympic Games

Google's new Gadget (as seen in this blog post) is going to make it easy to keep track of the standings and keep up to date with the schedules. You can embed the gadget into your website or add it to your Google Homepage.





Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/keeping-up-with-summer-games.html

"I’m happy to present the 2008 Summer Games on Google, a site that features a number of our products to help you stay updated on Summer Games happenings. And it's available in 66 countries and 31 languages, from Australia to Uruguay, and from Arabic to Vietnamese.

We collaborated with a data provider to make it easy for you to keep current on event schedules and get updates on results, as well as track medal counts with an iGoogle gadget. You can also get schedules and results on Google search results. (Check out the results for water polo.) We're also including the newest Summer Games highlights through Google News. The Summer Games Google Maps lets you view medal and event information based on your favorite regions and sports, and there's a 3D video of the various Games venues you can tour:

Also, be sure to check out this cool collection of 3D stadiums and venues in Beijing created with Google SketchUp. Read more about these efforts on the Lat Long Blog.

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