The search giant Google also felt the heat as it struggled to keep up to the server requests from millions of users who searched about the legend singer. Google believed it to be part of the virus attack the happened in 2005 and for the first 25 minutes even gave a message stating that the search term may bring up maliculous sites. This was due to the fact that in june 2005, a virus spread through e-mails claiming that Michael Jackson had suicided because of the allegations raised against him.
Various news sites also reported record breaking hits on Michael Jackson's death. The news that Michael Jackson had been hospitalised was read by more than 800 Thousand people in Yahoo News. The record for most read article in Yahoo news is also claimed by Michael Jackson's death. Around 16.4 million people read the article leaving behind the record of 15.1 million claimed on the day when Barack Obama was elected as the President Of America. Around 1.75 billion articles about Micheal Jackson's death was read all along the internet.
Even after his death, Micheal Jackson proved that he really is the King Of Pop.
1 comments:
Yep.. That was right. I experienced several server errors with Google that day. After all, my blog got its traffic trippled coz of just an article about 'The Great' MJ.
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