Cricket: bigger than Paris Hilton

Thanks to Will, I learn that Google has done an analysis of the most popular searches on its website during the past year and, well my gosh, the fourth most popular search in the world was "2007 cricket world cup", behind "American Idol", "youtube" (who on earth needs to Google youtube when they can surely have a guess at youtube.com?) and "Britney Spears".

The 2007 World Cup was more popular, in terms of searches anyway, than the iPhone, Ms Hilton, Anna-Nicole Smith, Iran and two people I've never heard of called Chris Benoit and Vanessa Hudgens. I had to Google to find out who they are, which may have pushed them ahead of the World Cup by now.

Note that people were searching for "World Cup", not "ICC World Cup", which the governing body was insisting we call the cursed thing.

Comments

[Angus]

I think these figures show the amount of people trying to find free live stream of the World Cup.

With cricket shifting rapidly from terrestrial TV to pay-per-view and subscription packages around the world, and the extortionate cost of actually attending a match, the fans are desperately looking for an inexpensive fix.

[Humphrey B Bear]

Will strikes me as the type who may also have a relationship with a toy bear.

Are you in-laws via Knick?