Google Under Attack

Well, you heard it correctly on 25th June 2009 the giant search engine Google thought that he was in under attack as there were millions of searches for the news of Michael Jackson death. The rush of search was so severe that Google thought he wan under attack and they showed error page for the search.



You can see the respond from Google representative "The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack. As a result, for about 25 minutes yesterday, when some people searched Google News they saw a "We're sorry" page before finding the articles they were looking for." Source.


But the event of Thursday demonstrated that Google is very far behind in displaying the result related to Michael Jackson health. They probably shown the exact result of his death after 3 hrs as sources believed. The first media channel who break the news of Michael Jackson death was TMZ.com but & there after the news broke out so rapidly that everyone around the world start searching for the news.

After TMZ.com every other social media site like Twitter there were 1500 tweets per min for Michael Jackson It is great to see that social media channel are popping out the result more faster than traditional engines. And in yahoo there were 800000 clicks in 10 minutes for the story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital,”.


The only search engine lagging behind is Bing where nothing related to Michael Jackson death is being displayed. They say that Bing “saw a spike in traffic “ but they don’t have any data to share with.

It’s a question on the part of Google where they are ruling emperor in search engine but despite the best they don’t report perfectly about this breaking news. But will they do this again if any unusual thing happens like this.