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Web Analytics World Cup 2010 searches and Panini football stickers – http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-g . 1 hour ago from Hitwise Intelligence – . – Comment – Like The World Cup is nearly upon and, as you would imagine, the Internet is starting to go mad for it. Last week (w/e 29/05/10) UK Internet users searched for nearly 25,000; a few were related other events, but the vast majority referred to the upcoming festival of football in South Africa. The ten most popular were: 1. world cup 2010 (4.98% of all UK Internet searches containing the phrase ‘world cup’) 2. world cup (3.70%) 3. world cup 2010 dates (3.28%) 4. england world cup fixtures (1.77%) 5. world cup fixtures (1.64%) 6. fifa world cup 2010 (1.36%) 7. world cup groups (1.10%) 8. world cup 2010 wall chart (1.10%) 9. fifa world cup (0.74%) 10. world cup fantasy football (0.73%) It’s interesting to see how the volumes for the most popular terms have fluctuated over the last few weeks (as illustrated in the chart below). Searches for ‘world cup 2010 dates’ started to take off at the start of April, and have continued to increase ever since. The term ‘england world cup fixtures’ has . – Sergey Sergeev