Bin Laden News Spikes Internet Traffic

A three year high in Internet traffic was reached May 2nd on the announcement of the death of Bin Laden. Traffic was highest on Internet news sites and search engines. This event followed on the heels of the huge spike in traffic due to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster in March.

"It is interesting to note that ‘bin laden wives’ ranked first followed by ‘osama bin laden’ dead" in search terms driving traffic, Dougherty added. "Out of the top 100 search terms, 30 were Bin Laden related."

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