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Cricket Beats Paris Hilton

22 December, 2007 by Amit Varma

Google’s Zeitgeist for 2007 is quite fascinating. It reveals that “cricket world cup 2007” was the fourth-most popular search of the year in Google News, while “paris hilton” came eighth. Hooray for one-day cricket.

Having said that, if any of Hilton’s sex tapes had lasted a day…

(Link via Smoke Signals.)

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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