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Michael Jackon's Death spiked Google's traffic mistaken for an attack

06/29/09 09:09

The unfortunate death of music icon king of pop Michael Jackson have brought Google traffic go up than the usual, the surge of Michael related searches last Thursday was first thought of an attack. Right after the rumors of Jackson's death, with the flock of visitor that may have overloaded the services making it inaccessible for some people. The google system may have thought than the flock of same queries is a coordinated google attack for about 25 minutes before realizing the real situation. More details on Tom Krazit's article on cnet news website, link below.

Link: Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack | Web