Get sports scores on the go with Google Mobile

There are many ways to keep up with the most updated of your favorite sport club's scores, like for an instance mobile users can get game scores with Google SMS service. Simply by sending a text message with the team name, you will get a return text message on recent scores and the schedule of the next game.

But it turns out Google actually launched the service a little over a year ago for mobile users in the United States, though Google didn't announce it. "When people type a team name into the search box, the service shows frequently updated scores for professional football, basketball, baseball, and hockey games, as well as for college basketball", explained by Google's spokesman Michael Kirkland.

Stephen Shankland (News Blog) who found about this, also finds that although Kirkland wouldn't comment on any plans to offer the service to Web searchers using PCs. Curiously, because Apple's iPhone uses an ordinary search site, iPhone customers actually can't get the service, he added. Nor would Kirkland comment on the possibility of Google gradually expanding from a search engine to a much more general-purpose Internet portal. Sports is one of the obvious specific areas of focus.

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