BCCI has a subsidiary site at bccicricket.org for updates on any of the Indian domestic matches being played (Ranji, Irani cup, Vijay Hazare cup, Duleep,Syed mushtaq, may be IPL too this time), I followed my home team Karnataka all this season on this site, It’s a pretty slow site I should say. However I had no other way, except for final which was telecasted live on TV as well as on my usual favorite cricinfo.
I’m so thrilled that I could follow all the matches live which is way better than waiting on cricinfo for updates (oh! wait I’m not complaining, cricinfo is still my favorite ), I tried to make it better and sent them a suggestion to look into their coding and find the security flaw they still have. No body replied! well there isn’t anything very serious you can do by logging into Admin’s account on that site.
Google has been displaying live scores with it’s search results when a visitor queries for live scores or a particular match (I haven’t been free to write about that though), (Bing has that future too)
Just type in the word “cricket“, here is the snapshot of what I found just as I’m writing this post
Live scores followed by news results in cricket
Using site specific search operator in Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Bing, Seznam
To restrict your search for a specific website (let’s say to search for Helen Hunt from wikipedia website) in Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Bing,Soso, Sogou and Seznam you need to use site: operator
For example the search for site:wikipedia.org helen hunt
will return pages from all wikipedia sites for the key phrase Helen Hunt (BTW she is my favorite), take a look at the snapshot
Google has returned top ten pages from wikipedia sites for “Helen Hunt”, You can also notice in the snapshot that there are pages from en.wikipedia.org pages as well as from simple.wikipedia.org, you can restrict search to a specific sub domain by exactly typing in the url after site operator as in “site:en.wikipedia.org helen hunt“. Even better refining of results is possible by restricting search to a specific folder of the site Eg:en.wikipedia.org/wiki helen hunt
You can also use site: operator in broader sense, instead of just limiting search to a specific site, we can restrict site to .edu, .org, .com and other top level domains Eg: site:edu mit
Seznam is different and good in someway, It returns results of the forms example.com/cs/page/1/ and example.com/page/1/cs/ when you search for site:example.com/cs/
Yahoo redirects us to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com when site: operator is used, we can directly go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and type in the site url instead of site operator.
Yandex doesn’t support site operator as I know, It only returns the main page as of now, but if you are a webmaster and wondering how to know which of the pages are added to yandex try adding your site to Yandex webmaster tools at webmaster.yandex.ru and search inside your webmaster tools (http://webmaster.yandex.ru/site/indexed-pages.xml?host=xxxxx&path=*) by just typing in the sitename followed by * Eg: example.com/* will return all example.com pages
Note: XXXXX in the url is the id of your site that yandex has assigned (only if have submitted your site to yandex)
