Goal.com fifth highest rising Google search in Ghana during 2010*

(15 December 2010) - Goal.com was the fifth highest rising Google search

in Ghana in 2010, the Internet search engine has revealed.

The world’s largest new media football community, Goal.com attracts over 15

million unique monthly users from every country on earth. Founded in 2004 by

Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni, Goal.com enlists the expertise of 550 editors

and reporters from around the world to provide local coverage of the

beautiful game, making its content the only truly representative available.

The findings cap off a successful year for Goal.com in Ghana, with its

coverage of the African Cup of Nations 2010 the most comprehensive in the

nation and with the destination quickly becoming the go-to place for many

media outlets looking for the latest news and developments.

Goal.com is joined in Google’s top 10 list of the fastest rising searches of

2010 by ‘World Cup’ – testament to the surge in activity in Ghana around the

2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa – as well as ‘Facebook’, ‘Skype’

and striker ‘Asanoah Gyan’.

A statement from Google comments that: “Ghanaians also demonstrated their

ongoing love for football by searching for the World Cup, Goal.com, the

Premier League and Asanoah Gyan, our star striker.”

As well as covering local events, Goal.com serves to provide news, exclusive

interviews, features and other such content from the world’s most popular

leagues including the English Premier League.

Goal.com reporter in Ghana, Kent Mensah, said: “The last 12 months have been

a huge success for Goal.com in Ghana, and our coverage of high profile

events such as the African Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup helped us

to reach new audiences.”

??*Fastest rising searches, Ghana, 2010

*

1. waptrick.com

2. Opera

3. World cup

4. facebook.com

5. goal.com

6. skype

7. premier league

8. Ipad

9. Storm over paradise

10. Asanoah Gyan

?For more information, please visit *

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010/*

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For further information, please contact Will Wood, Goal.com PR Director, on

will.wood@goal.com.