It’s almost my favorite time of the year, otherwise know as football season. And, today Google revealed that all sorts of football information, both NFL and college, is now available right in Google Search
Last week Google began bringing MLB results, but football is America’s number one sport, so it’s nice to see this partnership with ESPN evolve. The simple announcement from Google came from software engineer Itay Maman and reads as follows:
“Just as the NFL season kicks off and you have your fantasy football league ready to go, you’ll be able to get useful information such as the latest scores, schedules, standings and stats for football-related queries in your search results. Last week, we started showing MLB results in partnership with ESPN and we’re now expanding sports live results to include the NFL. In addition to information on the football league, teams and players, you’ll also have direct links to previews, live streams, updates and game recaps. We hope to add more and more sports information on google.com, so stay tuned. “
You can try it out by doing a Google search. A simple search for NFL yielded results such as the schedule, fantasy football, news, players, news, and more. Adding ESPN to the search gives you box scores right in the top your results. You can see screenshots of both at the bottom of this post.
This is a handy way to get quick information and news without trying to navigate the NFL web site, or an app app on your phone or tablet. As you saw in the Google announcement, they are promising even more integration is on the way. So….Are you ready for some football?!
