Comments on: Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

By: afewtips.com

afewtips.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:20:31 +0000

I think it’s interesting that Yahoo became both a distributor and a reporter.

Might Yahoo have an interest in providing the news data and not just posting news provided to yahoo?

I’m wondering why they thought to go to the hospital and actually report on the crowds.

Yahoo has 2 letters at the end just like CNN so why not?

By: roelb88

roelb88 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:11:48 +0000

I just read the post and it’s a very nice post, shows how the most popular search engines handle these events, pretty interesting. Thanks!

By: chiropractic

chiropractic — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:23:17 +0000

Nice job putting this all together Matt, it’s a rare event and there’s been so many things learned from it. I wonder if media and search engine co’s think they could be better prepared and then I wonder will we have an event of this magnitude occurring again anytime soon?

By: ralphm

ralphm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:20:51 +0000

Nice article and graphs. I’d just like to mention the number of YouTube searches and additional hits to his already 25 million view videos must have soared. My wife spent all day watching his videos.

By: tag44

tag44 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:55:57 +0000

Thanks for the post Matt, its lovely really.

By: ginocarpio

ginocarpio — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:55 +0000

until now, many are still uploading about tributes of Michael. Many are interested to know Michael’s life. even in iTunes Michael got back in the charts.

By: alfredopalconit

alfredopalconit — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:53:48 +0000

ah, i now see why there is a captcha warning on my first google search of the day.

By: dannydover

dannydover — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:29:31 +0000

Matt,

Great stuff, we (the readers) are very lucky that you had the opportunity to get all of these inside perspectives. I always like the mental image of war-room like meetings at major tech companies. I picture a lot of red flashing lights and smoke :-) MJ’s impact on the world was stunning and he will be missed.

I wrote up a timeline of the events on SEOmoz that is a good supplement to this post. Not going to link to it as I wrote it and I think that is in bad taste but I was very interesting to see you write about the same story from a different perspective.

Cheers!
Danny

By: nickstamoulis

nickstamoulis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:14:17 +0000

Hi Matt – I think it there is no surprise that Bing/MSN/Live.com did not have anything news related as fast…that is typical for them…

By: realtrack5

realtrack5 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:29:52 +0000

Hi,

You had mention all the search engine details with their traffice graphs which is relly helpful to know for all of us that seach traffice can even increae like this.

Its really cool

Regards,

Realtrack