World Cup 2010, Paul Octopus, Larissa Riquelme… What we learn from them
World Cup 2010 is over. Spain win the competition and become the new world champion. I’m one of the big fans of Spain National team, so i celebrate for their winning in this competition. World Cup event always offered a lot of dramatic and sensational story in it, including World Cup 2010. In my local newspaper, almost everyday world cup news always appear on front page as the headline news of the day. I think the other news must be willing to become the second priority after the world cup news. The whole world is being hit by World Cup fever
This also happens in Internet. Especially when you watch carefully what the trends happening in the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing or also social media like Facebook and Twitter. During the World Cup, I tried to observe this trend more clearly through Google Trends Hot Searchs. And during the World Cup there are some topics that seem very popular among Internet users. What is it? Usually the hottest topics searched is about the next game will be held. eg: Argentina vs. Germany, Spain vs Paraguay, etc. Also surprising defeat of big teams also become hot topic in search engine, eg : the defeat of England, Italy and France. The winning of big team also dominates hot searches, especially Spain winning from Netherland in The Final. Besides all that, there are other topics that as hot as the match game itself or even exceed world cup game itself. A booming trend during this world cup is associated with an octopus named Paul.
