Google and the World Cup
Anyone that knows me knows I'm a complete soccer hooligan. The upcoming World Cup has me more excited than a 4 year old at Disneyland. That's why I was so pleasantly happy to see Google do something really creative when you search for "World Cup":

Clearly Google knows the importance of the World Cup. And for that...I will always use Google.
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That’s awesome, nice find
WOW that’s Very Good!
Thanks David.
nice David! ur not the only hooligan ;)
Very nice David. One point: The game’s called football, not soccer.
cool!
i hope to see many goals from Villa, no doubt, this is our year.
Greetings from spain
@Yannick: being an american too, i find that I fall into this quite often. I do try to say football instead of soccer and American football instead of just football, but sometimes many years of growing up in the states (and the south specifically where football/soccer is an alien concept in many places and American football is a way of life) it gets hard to remember that others on the internet may actually not use the same terms.
i said all that for two purposes:1) to repent for calling it soccer on occasion and 2) to defend David for a Freudian slip.
If we’re being pedantic, football hooligans are unpleasant people more interested in destroying things and beating people up than the game of football. This is not the David I know.
Btw, many of the schools here are letting kids out early on Friday so they can get home/wherever in time for the first game, which kicks off at 3pm local time. /That/ my friends is what it means to be a footballing nation :)
I got…a few…jerseys to celebrate my fanhood:
http://yfrog.com/092r8bj
I’m in SA and i can tell u that the excitement has reached fever pitch. Nice to see Google and the world celebrating.
What, no french jersey ? shame on you :D
Here’s a nice calendar http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html
My productivity will drop for sure. Come on, games at 13:30 and 16:00 here, they’re killing me !
“I got…a few…jerseys to celebrate my fanhood: …”
I’ve just checked it out. A FEW? Hahaha, you are really a “soccer hooligan”, ain’t you?
lol @ the pic, david you need to move to eu man! nothing like going to watch a live game even if its at Anfield
Great catch David. Here in Brazil it shows Goooooooooooool (without the “a”) as expected. I’m rooting for a more offensive and creative footbal on this Wold Cup, so for now it’s either Spain or Holland :) Cheers.
This is a very good idea… Google!!!
Absolute bunch of nerds getting phrases wrong. I wouldve thought that you would have called the ‘World Cup’, ‘Soccer World Series’ instead.
Hahaha Google being creative… again :) I also love how Google changes it’s logo for various events.
Gee, I was talking about Spain and Holland one month ago… if only I had put some money on that :)