Best Gay Blogs » Internet http://www.bestgayblogs.com Bringing you the best gay blogs on the web with daily updates! Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MJ Almost Breaks Internet http://www.bestgayblogs.com/2009/06/featured-celebrity-blogs/mj-almost-breaks-internet/ http://www.bestgayblogs.com/2009/06/featured-celebrity-blogs/mj-almost-breaks-internet/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:31:09 +0000 James http://www.bestgayblogs.com/?p=7360 How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one — if that one is Michael Jackson.

The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the Internet with him, as the ripples caused by the news of his death swept around the globe.

“Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson,” a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as “volcanic.”

As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton’s blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.

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