Tip: Olympic Medal Count

Google has an Olympic Medal Count hack. Just type in the search term “medal count”, and Google will show you the top three countries, along with the amounts of gold, silver, and bronze medals, followed by their respective medal total. I took the URL of the search query and favorited it on my mobile phone, and it loads in a flash.

The US is first in the medal count, with 6 (2, 1, 3). China is tied with South Korea (both scoring 2, 1, 0). If your measure is by amount of gold medals, then all three countries are tied.

It would be really cool if somebody built a desktop widget, or similar for mobile phones, so as to display the medal count, updating automatically. Hopefully by the next Olympics, we’ll have it.

Google Medal Count

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