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Aside from the points made about the technical solution, its worth pointing out that there is really no one sits watching the google homepage scores to update.
by rjkennedy98 7y ago
Aside from the points made about the technical solution, its worth pointing out that there is really no one sits watching the google homepage scores to update. 95% of people are just going to check the page for the score and leave. If they want to get more up to date scores they will watch an actual game tracker on ESPN or the like. I think this blog post really misses the business use case.
- joshstrange 7y agoWow, this isn't high enough and sadly it didn't even occur to me until I read your comment. I'm not huge on the sports-ball but when I do need a score I google the game, see the score, and close the tab or sleep my phone. I might look at it later but even that is not a common use-case for me.
- paulddraper 7y agoYes, there's nothing to see here except the score. I haven't tracked tennis before, but for example ESPN football has a non-video, non-audio mode with event history plus up-to-date field diagram of each play, and I think even a social media or commenter text stream too. You could actually watch the game for a while this way. I can't imagine looking at this page for longer than a couple minutes.