{"id":13058,"date":"2010-06-12T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-12T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:14:00","slug":"world-cup-dominates-sa-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/13058-world-cup-dominates-sa-search.html","title":{"rendered":"World Cup dominates SA search"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2010 FIFA World Cup has taken South Africa by storm, and this is also shown in the online activity of local Internet users. <\/p>\n

The newly created 2010 World Cup forum<\/a> on MyBroadband is currently one of the post popular forums in the whole discussion board even though it is only a few days old. <\/p>\n

The influence of the World Cup can also clearly be seen in the online searches on Google from local netizens.<\/p>\n

According to Google’s Trends service the top ‘Rising searches’ for South Africa over the last seven days are:<\/p>\n

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  1. fan parks  <\/li>\n
  2. vuvuzela  <\/li>\n
  3. gautrain  <\/li>\n
  4. google maps  <\/li>\n
  5. fifa  <\/li>\n
  6. fifa 2010  <\/li>\n
  7. world cup  <\/li>\n
  8. world cup 2010  <\/li>\n
  9. fifa world cup  <\/li>\n
  10. maps  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When it came to rising image searches on Google South Africa over the last seven days the search terms concerning the World Cup were even more dominant:<\/p>\n

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    1. sa flag   <\/li>\n
    2. vuvuzela  <\/li>\n
    3. bafana  <\/li>\n
    4. fifa world cup  <\/li>\n
    5. fifa 2010  <\/li>\n
    6. fifa  <\/li>\n
    7. flags  <\/li>\n
    8. 2010 world cup  <\/li>\n
    9. world cup flags  <\/li>\n
    10. portugal  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      FIFA World Cup and Google Search in SA<\/strong><\/a> << comments and views
       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The 2010 FIFA World Cup dominates South Africa\u2019s Google searches with search terms like \u2018vuvuzela\u2019 and \u2018fan parks\u2019 showing big rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}