Michael Jackson's Death Created Uncontrollable & Extraordinary Traffic at Google, Yahoo and Bing

Michael Jackson's death news created ripples in all search engines on Thursday that is on 26/6/2009. It only shows admirers love and attachment towards Michael Jackson's music and love towards him. The unusual spike in the major search engines created hiccup to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter etc.

Google - Michael Jackson's death
Google on Thursday witnessed unusual traffic and all the Michael Jackson's fans trying disparately to get news and information about the King of Pop Michael Jackson. Whole Google were also surprised by the spike in the search results. They had to take extraordinary steps to handle the news. Michael Jackson's fans wanted to have the recent death photos. Google Trends on Thursday branded the searches " Michael Jackson died" as red Volcanic.

Bing - Michael Jackson's death
Bing relatively new started arranging for this extraordinary news of Michael Jackson's death, but they too did not anticipate the sudden surge and the spike and they had to all call an extraordinary meeting with all their programmers, marketing staff and news writers to solve this crisis of sudden blast in search for Michael Jackson's death. Bing searches were more on his photos at the time of death than the news.

Yahoo - Michael Jackson's death
Yahoo too witness a massive search and it is told that Yahoo search of Michael Jackson's death beat all time record. Pervious records were 15.1 million searches but Michael Jackson's death beat it too this time it is 16.4 million visitors. The four million visitors between 3-4 pm PDT set an hourly record. Yahoo to devoted all hands on the coverage of the news and they had to call in emergency their staff on their days off.

The extraordinary online search for information about Thursday's news of Michael Jackson's death wasn't limited just to the major search engines. The Wikipedia page about Michael Jackson saw an enormous jump in page views on Thursday, and even more on Friday, as told by unofficial Wikipedia traffic stats site. The Jackson page was temporarily 'protected' to prevent any editing as soon as the rumors started,' according to Wikipedia administrator Jonathan Hochman.

Twitter was flooded of Jackson-related searching and messages. There were nearly 5,000 Jackson-related tweets per minute on Thursday afternoon. "Twitter saw an instant doubling of tweets per second the moment the story broke. This particular news about the passing of such a global icon is the biggest jump in tweets per second since the U.S. presidential election."

This only shows Michael Jackson's death has created ripples and their love for their beloved King of Pop and rock music Michael Jackson.

Sources:

http://searchengineland.com/michael-jackson-extraordinary-day-in-search-21641
http://entertainment.in.msn.com/hollywood/MJ.aspx