I’m a little surprised that Microsoft is rolling out newish functionality on Live Search given that the new Bing rebranding is imminent. But the Live Search blog announced that sports stats and scores will appear in a “one box” like presentation when events, teams or player names are queried:

What this means, I assume, is that we’ll continue to see this sort of functionality on the new search site after it launches. Yahoo offers a similar experience for both queries, though Google does not.

Related Topics: Microsoft: Bing

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