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Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack (cnet.com)
28 points by zeedotme on June 26, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I'd bet it went more like "Automated software detected a large spike in queries for this, and determined it was an attack".

Though that's a far less interesting headline.


Wow, Michael Jackson really was a hacker. He coordinated a DDOS attack to occur shortly after his death!




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