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    From xyzzy@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 17 22:39:39 2022
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the
    top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc.
    This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?


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  • From unclejr@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Sat Sep 17 16:53:52 2022
    On Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 5:39:43 PM UTC-5, xyzzy wrote:
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc. This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info
    and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?


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    I noticed this today too. I thought that it was just a glitch in the Matrix.

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  • From leonard hofstatder@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Sat Sep 17 19:28:53 2022
    On 9/17/2022 5:39 PM, xyzzy wrote:
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the
    top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc.
    This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?



    Must be, I always google "cfb scores" and a scoreboard would pop up with
    like 4 games box scores showing and a MORE button link at the bottom,
    that is no longer the case.


    hmm, lemme try - yep duck duck still works, bing does also, yay

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cfb+scores&t=ha&va=j&ia=americanfootball&ia_state_americanfootball=league%3Ancaafb


    rsfck you google

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  • From leonard hofstatder@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Sat Sep 17 19:24:37 2022
    On 9/17/2022 5:39 PM, xyzzy wrote:
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the
    top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc.
    This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?



    Must be, I always google "cfb scores" and a scoreboard would pop up with
    like 4 games box scores showing and a MORE button link at the bottom,
    that is no longer the case.

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  • From Con Reeder, unhyphenated American@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Sun Sep 18 06:27:36 2022
    On 2022-09-17, xyzzy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the
    top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc.
    This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?



    Or ESPN gave them a bunch of money to stop them doing it....I note they
    are the second link after the main team site.

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  • From GrtArtiste@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Sun Sep 18 07:41:38 2022
    On 9/17/2022 6:39 PM, xyzzy wrote:
    Up until this week you could Google a football team on a Saturday and the
    top result would be their score with links to the stats, box score, etc.
    This was particularly handy if they had a game in progress.

    No more. Now it’s just a bunch of links to news stories and basic team info and you have to find a “live updates” story and read it to get that info.

    Did they get their hand slapped for scraping that info or something?



    Using my Android phone and Google Chrome, I can still speak..."NCAA
    Football scores"...and it will produce a link to take you to what I
    think is a complete list of every game.

    Also made some progress with CBSSports.com.

    Does SIRI not do this for the Apple crowd? Or ALEXA? My brother was at
    Tulsa and wanted texts on tOSU -Toledo. Don't know why he could not
    obtain them himself.

    GrtArtiste

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