Winter Olympics & internet search tools

Just like everyone takes up tennis in Australia come January (Australian Open), watches the F1 when it’s on in Melbourne in March, internet search results for Winter Olympics will probably be on the rise during the Vancouver Games. People are peculiar.

In preparation the three main search engines, Bing, Yahoo and Google launched a product each to

Searchengineland.com’s ranking based on their thorough review:

1. Bing – gold
Mainly due to their partnership with NBCOlympics, 400 hours of live event coverage, plus 2.5 times that ‘catch up’ content, Bing Visual Search (powered by Silverlight), Bing Map’s Winter Games application with real-time event info, plus a variety of mobile apps.

2. Google – silver
A great new feature is a dedicated site and YouTube channel, real-time news search, and a Games Gadget that can be added to your iGoogle page.

3. Yahoo – bronze
They also launched an official site, gave a boost to regular search results to include Olympics related info, and released a mobile site.

With all these tools at hand, the only thing left for us to do is to sit back and enjoy…
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