August 6, 2008
We’re bringing the Olympics to you
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:
Speaking of news, we’ve pulled it all together for you with our new Olympic News scope. We look for stories – articles and videos – across all the sources we can find and constantly provide the freshest, most relevant stories for you. If you just want to get right to the videos of the events and athletes try video search.
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
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