Traffic Surges From MJ Queries

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I thought this was interesting. The number of major sites AND seach engines that had issues with Micheal Jackson's death with the amount of queries that took place

Michael Jackson's death roils Wikipedia | Digital Media - CNET News

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The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death

SEOmoz | A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson's Death Traveled Across the Web

The events of Thursday demonstrated that Google is falling behind in the emerging real-time web. It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac arrest before it appeared as a auto completion suggestion on Google's homepage. In the computer age that is a huge amount of time. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes during which consumers may choose to go somewhere other than Google to get the information they want.

Michael Jackson Dead : Microsoft Bing FAILS in Coverage, Twitter and Facebook Break News