How to follow the Olympic Games through Google

This summer the Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Google wants to make it easier than ever to follow the results and news in real time through the search engine. To this end, the company has launched new information cards on athletes, teams and events, as well as specific pages to follow search trends in real timeabout the most important sporting events these days.

Google helps you follow the Olympic Games in real time

As it already did with other important international events ”“such as, for example, with the past Eurovision Song Contest”“ , Google has decided to launch a series of tools so that any user can stay informed about athletes, teams and results in real time. It will also be possible to know at any time how the search trends on the Olympic Games are evolving worldwide or by country

Among the possibilities available to us are automatic notifications about test results in applications for smartphones with iOS andAndroid or the live broadcast of the events, by streaming through the video platform of YouTube

More search options and notifications on your smartphone

When searching through Google information about the Olympic Games(for example, entering «Rio 2016») we will be able to know all kinds of details about the participating teams and athletes, as well as the results of the tests. The search engine will launch new informative cards where all the outstanding information will be found at a single glance, as can be seen in the image.

In addition, if the search is done through the mobile application of Google for iOS or Android, we can configure new settings to receive automatic notifications with the results and medals of the most important events and thus have the information at our fingertips in real time.

The search engine of Google will also allow access to the schedules of the retransmission of the tests of the Olympic Games, with programming from television channels from more than 30 countries.

And from Google Trends it will be possible to know in real time the trends of search on topics related to the Olympic Games in different countries or worldwide.

The Olympic Games from a distance with YouTube and Google Maps

Through Google Maps and the function Street View it will be possible to visit the enclaves where will carry out the tests in the city of Rio de Janeiro In fact, Google operators have already captured 360º images of the interior of the Olympic facilities.

During the celebration of the Olympic Games, sporting events will be broadcast live through the streaming option of YouTube.

This year's Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) from August 5 to 21. The technology sector will be very present at the sporting event, and recently we learned that Samsung will be the official supplier of the Spanish Paralympic team