Clive thompson live in the Moment

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When michael jackson died on June 25, mil-lions of people flooded onto Google News to find the latest information about what had happened. The spike in traffic was so massive that Google suspected a malware attack and began blocking anyone searching for "Michael Jackson." It's a funny story, but it illustrates how the Web is changing. People increasingly turn to the Internet for up-to-the-minuterninformation about, well, everything-blog postings about celebrity antics, status updates fromfriends, and pictures and videos of political events as they unfold, like the protests over the Iranian election. Studies have shown that these types of search requests are on the rise.