Google India releases its IPL Zeitgeist report for IPL 3

Google India has announced its 2nd IPL Zeitgeist for 2010 – a report on the most searched teams and players during the 3rd season of the Indian Premier League. According to the report, Sachin Tendulkar is the most searched Indian cricketer, followed by Saurav Ganguly. Shane Warne is the most searched international player at the IPL, for the second consecutive year . The popular names such as M.S. Dhoni, Virender Sehwag and ‘the Fake IPL Player’ were missing this year. Adam Gilchrist, Ryan Harris and Praveen Kumar made their debut on the list at number 7, 8 and 9 respectively.
 
Among the teams, Deccan Chargers was on the top slot followed by Mumbai Indians. Chennai Super Kings rounded up the top 3 teams, as Kolkata Knight Riders dropped to number 4 this year.
 
‘Super Over’ emerged as the most searched IPL related query on YouTube followed by Chennai Super Kings. Yusuf Pathan, who did not make it to the IPL Zeitgeist on Google Search, emerged as the most searched player on YouTube.
 
To compile the 2010 IPL Zeitgeist, Google studied the aggregation of queries pertaining to IPL that people typed into Google search during the IPL season 3. It used data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google Trends and internal data tools and filtered out spam and repeat queries to arrive to a list which captured the essence of the series. All of the search queries were anonymous - no personal information was used.

Most searched IPL player

Top 10 IPL Teams

Top IPL related Search Queries on YouTube
•     Super Over
•    Chennai Super Kings
•    Match 22
•    Kolkata Knight Riders
•    Match 21
•    Yusuf Pathan
•    Mumbai Indians
•    Highlights