Yahoo was not the only site to see traffic spikes in the wake of Michael Jackson's death. So many queries came into Google News in the minutes after the news broke that the search engine giant thought it was under attack, and the site was intermittently unavailable."The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack," R.J. Pittman, director of Product Management for Google, wrote in a blog post. "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."
Google also reported the largest mobile search spike in its history, with 5 of the top 20 searches about Jackson, Pittman said.
Overall search volume started to spike around 2pm Pacific time, skyrocketed by 3pm, and stabilized by 8pm. The majority of Thursday's hot trends related to Jackson's death, Google said.
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