Ggoal: the new web era bets on people

The software which has been developed in Italy emphasizes content inserted by users in order to make the search more “human”. Hold on! Is ready now the Beta version, with brand-new features, services and… surprises...




Now, a lot of people knows the new Web 2.0 search engine called Ggoal created in Italy and all rumours about it keeps on going on. After the public disclosure hinging on the issue of the Beta Version (2008 January, 19th), there has been a fully-fledged rush to the discovery of Ggoal that lead to a real increasing number of accesses which obliged his creators to announce on the Official Blog a temporary interruption of the service in order to upgrade it in terms of technological updates with the sole aim of allowing users to use a user-friendly tool. With an eye turned to the soccer metaphor and the other one fixed on Web 2.0, Ggoal aims to its users and to their ability to became a team in order to dodge and avoid the old methods of search that make them as mere "readers".

In fact, the Wishlist on the homepage is innovative and intriguing as it shows the rolling list of personal search carried out by each user. Therefore, this is a real invitation to visit the site addressed to users who apply the first rule of Web 2.0 , or rather involving web users asking them what they need and how they can contribute with their background and knowledge. This interactive system is able to converge more content in the search engine database and to increase demand and offer of qualified web addresses, but above all it is capable of introducing a new web sharing approach which has become a real trend.
In the Beta Version of Ggoal this sharing approach is optimized with RSS (Really Simple Syndication) that can be considered as the instrument that allows users to receive the content of their search directly by feeds.

All these functions of Ggoal base on the social value of sharing which is the true trigging force of this new web era. The results of this new approach can be observed in the user’s behaviour that pays more and more attention to the quality of its content. During this last week, we noted an increasingly search number on Ggoal about the urgency of waste treatment: a social topic that encouraged Ggoal users to obtain specific information using a Web 2.0-based search engine. The reason of this choice can be easily guessed. With the need of learn more information about this social topic, users searched reliable articles, reports and answers offered by other people and not by spiders even with the aim of giving their contribution.

Ggoal is really hinged on the spirit of the new Web era as it involves people who want to share their knowledge background on the Internet now and in the future. During the Alpha phase, users judged Ggoal that filled Italian bloggers with enthusiasm, registering new online accesses every day and estimating suggestions coming from every sector and activity. The Beta version comes from this synergy. It is online now, and now it’s up to you… to take the floor!