Tiger Woods sex scandal good for Google
p2pnet news view | Games:- Golfing is THE corporate sport and some parents encourage their kids to take it up not because of all the fresh air, but because they’ll make good connections for the future.
Sort of like going to the ‘right’ school.
Tiger Woods’ main claim to fame is: he can hit a little white ball around better than just about anyone else.
But he’s also pretty good at horizontal golf, from all accounts, and that’s now overshadowed his professional prowess to the extent he’s taking an indefinite break to sort things out — a “savage blow to the sport”. That’s what the BBC’s golfing correspondent says anyway.
Online, the Woodsian sex scandal isn’t boding ill for certain sites, observes the Associated Press, continuing Google and Yahoo say they’ve seen significant spikes in traffic from people looking for information on him.
“Time Inc. says its Golf.com Web site, which averages 2.4 million unique viewers a month, has seen traffic spike 600 percent since the story about Tiger broke after the Thanksgiving holiday,” says the story.
“The traffic is similar to levels the publications sees only during major golf championships, said Scott Novak, spokesman for Sports Illustrated Group, which publishes Golf.com.
“Yahoo says searches for Woods’ name are up more than 3,900 percent over the last 30 days. Neither Google nor Yahoo would provide specifics about how many more people were searching.”
Meanwhile, “I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children,” says wap.tigerwoods.com, going on >>>
I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I’ve done, but I want to do my best to try.
I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding. What’s most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing.
“After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person,” he adds.
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BBC – Reaction to Tiger Woods’s break from golf, December 12, 2009
horizontal golf – Tiger Woods and Holly Sampson: the video, December 11, 2009
Associated Press – Tiger Woods scandal a boon to Yahoo, Google, online publications, December 10, 2009
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