the buzz log
Unlike baseball's "world series," the Cricket World Cup involves more than one nation. And judging from the amount of cricket buzz dominating our top sports movers, it seems the entire population of each of those countries has hit the Web for more information on this year's games.
For wicket fans unable to make it to the West Indies, where the 2007 tournament is unfolding, the Web offers one of the best ways to catch the action in real time. Buzz on "live cricket" leapt more than 500% yesterday, and searches for "world cup cricket live," "cricket live score," "cricket online," and the popular site "cricinfo" have also soared..
As the 51 matches play out over the next month and a half, the international championship will surely continue to score in Buzz. Here's a sampling of the other cricket-related queries currently hammering Search...
the buzz log
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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