Google's World Cup Guide

This year, get closer to the action than ever before during the World Cup.

For the first time, you will be getting minute by minute live scores, team stats and highlights. With your phone, tablet or desktop you can look for real time updates in Google. All you need to do is just search for ‘world cup’ and it will give you the team line ups before the match, attempted goals and player stats.

You can also click or tap or switch between standings, schedules, specific teams and players etc.

For the first time, Google trends will help you explore the players, teams and all the moments that catch the entire world’s attention. Use google.com/worldcup to explore the trends from all the 32 participating nations.

You will get to know the feeling of an entire country, whether they are optimistic about their chances or whether they are anxious. Also discover the world’s most searched team at the present moment. Before and after the kick-off, you can find out the questions that are trending. And find out the players to watch out for and how well they rank with their compatriots.

For example, ahead of Spain’s opener against the Netherlands, people searched for Arjen Robben almost thrice as they did for the other players from both teams. In fact the Dutch are more interested in searching for Wesley Sneijder’s wife more than their opponents for the first game.

Want to explore all the 12 World Cup stadiums and the iconic painted streets of Brazil? Street view in Google maps is what you are looking for. Apart from the stadiums and the streets, you get to explore hundreds of sites across Brazil. Travel further to explore the latin american imagery in Peru, Chile, Mexico and Colombia.

To know more about the street view in Google maps, check out the video below,