A Very Google Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics in China have been Googled. Google has:

• Special logos for its home page during the Olympics - a new one each day, so far
• A 2008 Summer Games page with
  • An iGoogle gadget for your Google homepage
  • A link to a special YouTube Summer Olympics page
  • Google Maps information about
    • Medals
    • Events
    • Stadiums
  • Links to the latest stories from Beijing on - what else? - Google News
• A calendar of events
• About a gazillion¹ directories of pages about Olympics and Olympic events, past and present

Google and the 2008 Olympics are in the news, too:

• "Google's Olympic Extravaganza
  WebProNews (August 8, 2008)
  • Blogger/columnist Philipp Lenssen displays and discusses highlights of Google and YouTube's 2008 Olympics services.
  • Also, a few words about a set of darling little police avatars from China:
    • Cute
    • Helpful, sort of:
      They warn viewers of content that the Chinese government thinks is harmful - which probably includes impolite references to human rights abuses
  • A few words, and a screenshot, of SketchUp 3D models and the Olympics
  • And a screenshot and link to iGoogle, China - a version of iGoogle that's nothing if not colorful.
• "Google brings Olympics updates to mobile phones"
  CNET (August 8, 2008)
  • What the title says.
• "Google launches special sites and services for the Olympics"
  digitaljournal.com (August 9, 2008)
  • Also: What the title says.
  • With two embedded videos
• "Let the Games begin, online
  CNN (August 6, 2008)

I'm hoping that I'll find a video that does a thorough job of showing those opening ceremonies.

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¹ Several thousand, apparently. "Gazillion" sounded cooler, though.