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>Unfortunately, it is easier for me to find 20 year old simpsons clips on youtube than it is for me to find a video of Bolt's 100m heat from last week.

So glad I wasn't the only one. For whatever reason the nbc link to the video was never on the front of google.

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The ads streamed just fine. None of the actual events streamed after the ads finished.

Perverse that ads always work. I feel like I'm owed some kind of monetary compensation every time I watch an ad and then don't get to see the video I wanted to watch.

This was maddening as well. I had to go through nbcsports app and dig deep to find "Michael Phelps wins gold after thrilling final!" Instead of "200m X stroke final"

Such apps are menace. It seems that these apps cannot even do anything better than simple string search. They should learn a thing: Let Google do the search for them not their app.

A joke for the people who know little bit of programming: Hope they are not using strcmp to find the video file with title "Michael Phelps wins gold after thrilling final!" :(

edit: a typo

Probably untuned MySQL full text search, possibly Solr with all the default settings looking only at titles.

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