Google Desktop also Gets Olympic Attention

Google Desktop Blog has announced the availability of a Google Summer Games Gadget for Google Desktop. This means you will be able to follow the 302 events, 35 disciplines and over two hundred teams right from the comfort of your desktop.

This gadget will show you medal counts, event schedules and the latest news without having to open a browser window. The gadget is also available in Chinese language and for Google Gadgets for Linux. You can check out the gadget here. There is also a web based version of this gadget available here.

Only if Microsoft would learn something for Google, and make the Vista Sidebar useful instead of a system hog.

Technorati Tags: gadget, google, Google-Desktop, Google-Sidebar, olympics, Olympics-2008, Web-Gadget, Widget

1. 
   August 11th, 2008 at 2:01 am
   Varun Says:
   

   Hi, you have good info about Olympic, just inspiring by you I have also made a post of Olympic 2008, please review it and if possible, make a comment to make it more better.

2. 
   August 11th, 2008 at 5:54 am
   Tin Says:
   

   Looks good. If I manage to find time, I might look into this at work tomorrow.

   One question though… What’s with the A-Team thing under it in the screenshot?

3. 
   August 11th, 2008 at 6:55 am
   Imran Hussain Says:
   

   Tin, the screenshot has been taken from the Google Desktop blog, so can’t say

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