The Olympics kick off
The Olympics kicked off this weekend and no doubt everyone has been glued to the telly waiting to see who wins what.
However, it’s not only in Beijing that the competition has been heating up the Internet has been hot with websites fighting to be the number one Olympics news and resource point.
Google is offering a basic Olympics homepage that allows you to track the medal count and receive up to the minute news. Similarly, Yahoo! is providing a more in depth and interaction in its shortcut to the 2008 Olympics Medal Count; it has been noticed however that the information on both the Yahoo! and Google sites are derived primarily from American media points.
For videos of all the action check out Truveo who has extensive coverage provided by many third parties. For a more British take on the games the BBC also has a very informative page set up on their site with videos, results, up to the minute news and even video’s from previous Olympics.
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