Which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace?
The 2010 FIFA World Cup has thrown up challenges for researchers at Oxford and Kentucky Universities. Using Google Maps they have settled scores on whether the term 'football' or 'soccer' is preferred across the world and kicked off a debate about which nation likes to talk about football the most. They discovered that of all the teams in the World Cup, Algeria has the highest proportion of user-generated references to football. Algeria has 120 references to football out of a total of 5489 indexed items (or 2.2 per cent of all content) in Google Maps in Algeria. However, England is close behind with the second-highest proportion of references to football out of any country in the world cup. (165,000 football references in England out of almost 8 million indexed items - 2.1 per cent of the total). They also found that there are twice as many references to 'football' (645,000) as there are references to 'soccer' (324,000) across the world.

