Olympic Things
| Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 | --Sean |
The Olympics are nearly upon us, a fact that is not lost on my coworkers, who'll be working through the night monitoring the Yahoo! Sports Summer Olympics site, verifying results, and generally kicking butt. Good luck, guys! The site features a fresh new look, detailed results for all the athletes, sports, and countries that you can think of, a rockin' new trivia game, and a customizable Watchlist that you can use to keep an eye on the particular subjects that interest you. There are tons of nice little touches, too -- autocomplete search broken out by category, quicklink mouseovers for Watchlist stories, a deluge of interesting blog posts, et cetera. If you're interested in the Olympics, Yahoo! Sports is the place to be.
Coincidentally, getting there is even easier thanks to some excellent Yahoo! Search integration. The presentation of medals on the results page is just about as inspiring as the presentation of medals in real life, and the overview results have the nice touch of popping the featured video into a lightbox. To round out the offering, there will be search shortcuts for players and sports rolled out over the next few days. Maybe it used to be a marathon to find quality Olympics coverage -- we've turned it down to table tennis for you. Enjoy!