July 29 2012: These are a few of our favourite things -- online sites for following the Olympic Games, that is. Over 4 billion people -- almost half the population of the world, are expected to watch the games from their homes. The official Olympics Organisation has its own  Facebook site— http://www.olympic.org/content/broadcaster-home  -- while Google has put togetherone stop destination for all Olympics related insights, updates and information.Here you can find all the latest updates from the Olympics Games. https://www.google.co.uk/campaigns/olympics/index.html  

Microsoft's MSN home page has also geared up to serve the Internet public at http://sports.in.msn.com/olympics  . And as befits the official broadcaster of the host nation, the BBC has its own comprehensive resource http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/2012/