{"id":73,"date":"2007-11-17T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=73"},"modified":"2007-11-17T01:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T08:48:00","slug":"cricket-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/cricket-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/span> (19th Nov): Sometime after I published this post, the Cricket scores results have stopped coming on Google Search results.<\/p>\n

Sometime back during the Cricket World Cup, Google Engineers in India came up with a nice gadget<\/a> on Google Desktop to get Cricket Scores right on ones desktop. Live.
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Now, Google has gone one step ahead and integrated cricket scores<\/a> into Search. Brilliant! Ever since this got done, I have simply gone to Google and typed ‘cricket’<\/a> to check the score on the first result. I am sure its pretty popular and catching up (check Google trends<\/a> and peaking of searches around September – most probably because of this integration)<\/p>\n

One of the biggest reasons I do it, is speed. It means a lot, especially in the parts I come from, where many users still reach the Web via a dial-up line. Most often, I just want a broad update than ball-by-ball coverage. For that, its very annoying to load a full page (70+ Kb in size) with lots of text and even more ads (check this<\/a>).\"\"<\/a>So, why wait for 1+ seconds when you can get it in less than a second (time taken on my comp to load a standard score page on a Cricket website and Google). And, the score update, taken from about 2-3 cricketing websites (ws-3.willow.tv, www.cricinfo.com, www.cricbuzz.com), is almost instantaneous. Either Google is crawling these sites really regularly or it has some sort of an understanding to share data and has a mechanism of regular updates with them. Now, if its the later, these websites better charge Google for the content they are providing.<\/p>\n

There was one flaw in the reporting of scores on Google though. Nothing some additional programming could solve. Sometimes, the score shown is lower in a subsequent search. This was because Google was loading it from a different website (time stamp??) .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update (19th Nov): Sometime after I published this post, the Cricket scores results have stopped coming on Google Search results. Sometime back during the Cricket World Cup, Google Engineers in India came up with a nice gadget on Google Desktop to get Cricket Scores right on ones desktop. Live.Now, Google has gone one step ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rambling","category-technology","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}