"Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET on Thursday. Other sites also became flooded with requests and experienced outages including TMZ which broke the story and Perez Hilton's blog who reports on celebrity gossip. Twitter and Wikipedia experienced difficulties as well as the news broke and spread like wild fire through the online community.
