Follow Your Favorite Sports Team with Yahoo! Search
- Posted May 27th, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Yahoo! Search
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Working on the new Yahoo! Search sports team shortcut has made me a new sports fan (I’m still mourning over the Celtics’ loss). Being a new fan, I’ve also learned how hectic it can be to follow your favorite professional and college sports teams. That’s exactly why we developed the new sports team shortcut.
Starting today, when you search for your favorite major league or college sports team on Yahoo! Search, a new shortcut appears with the real time score, the last game’s score, and the date and time of the next game. You’ll also find quick links to the team’s page, as well as news, scores, schedules, stats, and photos. Instead of having to click through search results a couple of times a day, you can use the shortcut to follow tonight’s pivotal game when the Nuggets take on the Los Angeles Lakers.
If you can’t make it to the New York Yankees’ new ballpark in person, follow them with the sports team shortcut:
You can also try searching for “NBA playoffs” to see a snapshot of today’s NBA playoffs schedule and scores.
Or try searching for “French Open.”
The sports team shortcut covers the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA, and college sports leagues including the NCAAF and NCAAB.
Whether you’re a new sports fan like me or a lifelong diehard fanatic, we hope you’ll find it easier to follow your favorite teams with this new shortcut. Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Yuko Kamae
Yahoo! Search
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I would like to see more development of things like this for International users. Football (or Soccer as you Yanks like to call it) is massive across Europe and I’m sure the folk at UK & Ireland could do with something atune to this.
Sounds cool how about formula 1 driver and rugby 2?
@Coxy : I that’s not difficult !
Google also provided a similar thing in the last Champion’s League with the UEFA website
It sounds nice ! Live search Results (Live = actual :) )
I agree, soccer/futbol is too global to disregard.
think of it definitely for search in yahoo uk?
hey,i’m a lifelong diehard fanatic of swimming sport. can you get a channel about swimming?then i could say YAHOO!!!:-)
That’s a nice work !
Sports Shorcuts like stocks and weather reports :)
I’ve also noticed the shortcuts in Yahoo! Sports that display stats and news for specific players. Are player stats and team info (like above) available through any of the Yahoo APIs?
This is the type of feature, makes for great competition between the big search engines.
oh really yahoo search is perfect.
Yeah! What about Formula One?!
Thanks in advance ;))
I agree, this is a great idea/feature and will most likely increase Yahoo’s market share. Keep up the good work.
I really like this feature, but you cannot say “Follow Your Favorite Sports Team,” when it doesn’t include soccer. At least give us an MLS readout. I need to know how my Seattle Sounders are doing!
yahoo search is the best.
With one word: the best
That’s a nice work !
Sports Shorcuts like stocks and weather reports
With one word: the best
Seeing more international sports would be a good idea. Great job on the Yahoo search though.
I’ve also noticed the shortcuts in Yahoo! Sports that display stats and news for specific players. Are player stats and team info (like above) available through any of the Yahoo APIs?
Working on the new Yahoo! Search sports team shortcut has made me a new sports fan (I’m still mourning over the Celtics’ loss). Being a new fan, I’ve also learned how hectic it can be to follow your favorite professional and college sports teams. That’s exactly why we developed the new sports team shortcut.