Web Goes Wild For World Cup

Posted by: Micah Pratt

With the World Cup just a day away, I would like to share an article from mashable.com about how the World Cup is taking the Web by storm.

Web Goes Wild for World Cup [STATS]

worldcup Web Goes Wild For World Cup The World Cup doesn’t start for another 10 days, but it’s already blowing up the Web, particularly in the UK.

According to the trend-watching analysts at Hitwise, at least 20% of all searches in the UK last week contained the words “world cup.” Altogether, the World Cup was the subject of around 25,000 individual search terms.

In web search terms, this interest from searchers is nothing short of explosive.

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One Response

  1. Having fun reading your posts. Unrelated but I just read an interesting bit of trivia, did you know that 6,352 players have till now featured in Fifa World Cup squads, one quarter (1,545) of whom were never on the field.

    June 18, 2010 at 5:53 am

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