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    Mercy: cricket more popular than Paris Hilton

    By Will last year, mid-December Leave a comment on this post

    I think this might be interesting (haven’t made my mind up yet). Google produce an annual zeitgeist to list the most popular keywords, themes and topics the world have been searching for in the past year. Amazingly, 2007’s world cup was the fourth most wanted - behind Britney Spears but ahead of things like the iPhone, Anna Nicole Smith (who?) and Paris Hilton.

    Fair enough, it’s not exactly Trevor but noteworthy nonetheless.

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  • Alan R wrote:
    December 18th, 2007 at 6.42 am

    The numbers were surely boosted by the murder mystery surrounding the World Cup and probably also by people confusing the World 20/20 with the World Cup.

  • glamorous_organ wrote:
    December 21st, 2007 at 10.50 pm

    At least Kurt Vonnegut got in at #10 on the RIP list. There may still be some traces of intelligence in the species.

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