Google Saw One Million Percent Increase In Searches For Bin Laden On May1

We heard yesterday that Sunday nights announcement of Osama Bin Ladens death drew the highest sustained rate of tweets ever according to Twitter and Google has revealed an impressive stat showing the impact of the event on Google search.

Google says that between 7:30 and 8:30 pm PST (which was right around the time the news broke over Twitter), Google saw an one million percent increase in searches for the term 'bin laden.'

Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/03/google-saw-one-million-percent-increase-in-searches-for-bin-laden-on-may-1/