Microsoft is into the Olympics in a big way through our partnership with NBC on NBCOlympics.com, the official online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing! And Live Search is ready to help you find everything you want during the games.
Feeling competitive? We’ve made it easy for you to find out if your country is ahead or behind – just search for “Olympic medals” and you'll get up-to-the-minute tallies by country:
Check it often to watch those medals add up!
If you just want to see a specific country or sport, you can do that, too. Try “Medals for Portugal” or “Medals for Swimming” and you'll get the latest counts as they happen:
It isn’t always about who is winning, although those heart-wrenching stories of hardship leading up to victory make some Olympians more popular than others. If you don’t want to be left out of the conversation over lunch, check out Olympic xRank. Not only will you know who is hotter than the torch but why.
On the other hand, if you hear an athlete’s name or want to find out why you keep seeing their face on your co-workers' monitors, try our Athlete Answer. Enter “Michael Phelps” and we give you everything you need in a neat little package:
And we're not done! In our last blog post, we introduced you to our new homepage. It's gotten great reception and we wanted to do something special during the Olympics, so we'll be updating the image twice a day with great shots from the Games. Watch for it when the Olympics begin on 8/8/08.
We hope your team brings home the gold from Beijing!
Jacquelyn Krones - Senior Product Planner for Live Search
Nice work! But why many functions of live search uaavalible russian version? if you want to get the first plase in the search engine you must to translate live search to other languadges complitly with all function.
I agree!! Even the Canadian version is completely different than the US version with most features not fully enabled. Why does MSFT not support other countries with the same quality as the US??
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Beautifully done! Thank you very much for the work.
Same experience. It does not work for Hungary...
I just wanted to write a post on my blog (the only blog about search engines in hungarian) about this feature, but I cant do that right now.
Why MS doing this? It does not make sense at all... In Hungary Lives has like 3-4 percent share, and it wont change this way. It could have been a very good feature for this olympic game...
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The searches are not working for me either. This could have been a great promotion for live.com but too bad not all countries can see this.
Whew, what a busy couple of weeks it's been. We launched our new home page back at the end of July with
