Google India, today, announced its 2nd IPL Zeitgeist for 2010 – an insight into the most searched teams and players during the 3rd season of the Indian Premier League. Sachin Tendulkar emerged as the most searched Indian cricketer, followed by Saurav Ganguly. Shane Warne continued to be the most searched international player at the IPL, for the second year running. Conspicuous by their absence were popular names such as M.S. Dhoni, Virender Sehwag and ‘the Fake IPL Player’, who moved off the top 10 this year. Adam Gilchrist, Ryan Harris and Praveen Kumar made their debut on the list at number 7, 8 and 9 respectively.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the most searched player
- Deccan Chargers is the most searched team
- Shane Warne is the most searched international player
- Fake IPL player, Dhoni and Sehwag move off the IPL Zeitgeist
- Super Over and Chennai Super Kings were the most searched IPL related search queries on YouTube
Among the teams, Deccan Chargers ousted the Mumbai Indians from the top slot, who emerged as a close second. 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. We used data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google Trends and internal data tools. We also filtered out spam and repeat queries to arrive to a list which captured the essence of the series. All of the search queries we studied are anonymous - no personal information was used.
Most searched IPL player
| 2010 | 2009 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Fake IPL Player |
| Sourav Ganguly | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Shane Warne | M.S. Dhoni |
| Yuvraj Singh | Yuvraj Singh |
| Rahul Dravid | Sourav Ganguly |
| Brett Lee | Rahul Dravid |
| Adam Gilchrist | Virender Sehwag |
| Ryan Harris | Shane Warne |
| Praveen Kumar | Harbhajan Singh |
| Harbhajan Singh | V.V.S Laxman |
Top 10 IPL Teams
| 2010 | 2009 |
| Deccan Chargers | Mumbai Indians |
| Mumbai Indians | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Chennai Super Kings | Deccan Chargers |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Rajasthan Royals |
| Rajasthan Royals | Chennai Super Kings |
| Delhi Daredevils | Delhi Daredevils |
| Kings XI Punjab | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Kings XI Punjab |
