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Richard Vega, Editor of Yahoo News, also described it as an all-hands-on-deck situation, going so far as to bring in staff on their days off. Things were no less busy inside Yahoo headquarters.

The four million visitors between 3-4 pm PDT set an hourly record. Yahoo also revealed that Yahoo News set an all-time record with 16.4 million visitors, beating the old record of 15.1 million set last election day. Their story, “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital,” received 800,000 clicks in 10 minutes, making it their highest-clicking story ever. Thursday was a record-breaking day for Yahoo. Yahoo: “This demanded that we take our coverage to the next level” Their blog post does say that Google “saw one of the largest mobile search spikes we’ve ever seen.” And Google Trends labeled Thursday’s searches for “michael jackson died” as “volcanic.” Google hasn’t said yet how Thursday’s traffic compares to other important news events. “People came to Google looking for an answer to a specific - and in this case, rather sad - question, and they got it quickly.” “The spike in traffic is an indication that we accomplished what we set out to do,” Stricker says. Google says the mistaken attack was its only hiccup yesterday, and that they saw no need to manually adjust results so that searchers got the right information. “That was an all-hands-on-deck moment,” Stricker says, “until we were able to determine that the original assessment was wrong, that it wasn’t an attack.” The massive spike in searches “tricked” Google News into showing an interstitial error page for about 25 minutes. The rush of traffic was so severe that Google initially thought it was under attack. Stricker says Google saw a wide range of queries - like “michael jackson died” and “michael jackson hoax” - that peaked at about 3:00 pm PST. Google has written about what it calls an “outpouring of searches” about Jackson. “Thursday was a pretty out-of-the-ordinary day.” That’s how spokesperson Gabriel Stricker describes the scene at Google’s headquarters while millions of people were online trying to find out what happened to Michael Jackson. And just like their counterparts in traditional media, the news divisions of Google, Yahoo, and Bing responded with sometimes extraordinary measures to ensure they were giving searchers the most accurate and current news available.īelow, a look not only at the extreme traffic spikes that took place, but also an insider’s look at what happened as each search engine - and Wikipedia - grappled with the demands of a nearly unprecedented surge of interest in the day’s breaking news. Isn’t this so spine jolting? This news and such proofs feel no short of heart-attack.An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson. There a lot of threads which prove that Michael Jackson is very much alive and getting treated or is on a permanent break from his career and life. She also said that his drug addiction gave him a disease called Epilepsy which causes seizures of different types and he is hiding away from the people and his family knows it. One of the fans of MJ who was a close friend of MJ’s eldest son’s girlfriend revealed that her friend repeatedly told her to believe that Michael was alive and that she could talk to him daily.He wanted to give some message to his fans through this and only some of the people could notice this. This one was one of the clearest hints that he is still alive and not dead. The first image belongs to Michael’s cover and when you zoom it to 400 and observe it closely, you’ll be able to see the world “ALIVE” written on his lower lip.They told the media and other friends that his face had come in a bad shape and they wouldn’t be able to look at it and hence, they wanted his coffin to be closed which means that there is no proof of him being in the coffin. Michael’s family didn’t allow anyone to open the coffin in which MJ was supposedly to be in.Michael’s daughter took a Selfie in her car, the media could see something really dark in the background of the front seat of the car, and they used certain techniques to brighten the background which revealed someone absolutely like Michael Jackson sitting at her back.