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Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was a denial of service attack

by bobsilber
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Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service.


Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack | Webware - CNET

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  • Profile picture of the author ZTsJourNeY
    There are lots of unscrupulous people leveraging on people's death for making money. In fact, there are so many other money making opportunities.
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    • Profile picture of the author defy
      Any good webserver would be scanning for DoS(Denial of Service) attacks. Suddenly getting hit by a few million requests definitely looks like that kind of attack and would trigger a minor of at least a few servers.

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  • Profile picture of the author raymagnetic
    Amazing how popular a person he was to make Google's network think a possible virus was attacking it.
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  • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
    I'm starting to get a little tired hearing what Google thinks is good or bad. I mean one time they marked every search result as a suspicious link. Come on already! All of the automated analysis needs to be paired up with human beings who have some common sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author chunkmarketing
    its kinda funny that Google wouldn't be expecting a ton of searches for Michael Jackson after his death. apparently they don't really keep up with the news.
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Anderson
    One mainstream news report was that Google was inaccessible for some for a short time because of the surge.
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