Google, Nike Open Social Football Site

By the Betanews Staff | Published March 30, 2006, 1:00 PM

Google took a step further into the content business on Thursday, kicking off a new community Web site dedicated to football, or soccer as it is known in the United States. The search engine joined up with Nike to build Joga.com, which is based on Google's Orkut social networking site. Users can add pictures, videos and blogs, and link up with friends.

Joga users can build their own football teams, find local fields and even play other nearby Joga teams. "Whether we've succeeded, of course, will be up to all of you to determine. We look forward to seeing football-crazy people from around the world playing as beautifully as possible at Joga.com," said Google software engineer Pedram Keyani.

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I remember this site from earlier this week. I am absolutely sure that it was called Jogasoccer.com or similar. Now Soccer been replaced by Football in the URL. And yet within its script it leans back to Soccer descriptions.
Football is played by the rest of the world,it is justified in being called football. Lets get all this soccer out of the script. Football in American terms is a minority sport to all but an American. 95% of the world call it Football not Soccer.

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How about this... Go suck and egg. We Americans will call Football, football and soccer a girls sport. Deal with it.

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Pllllllllttttt.

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WONDERBAR!!!! OUTSTANDING!!!!! MAGNIFICO!!!!

3 CHEERS FOR GOOGLE !!!!!

CHEERIO

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very cool!

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who cares?

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some people do and it is nice that large companies can spend the time to do things like this once in a while.

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Bleh !!

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