'Osama bin Laden' searches spike 1 million percent just on Google

Within hours of Osama bin Laden's announced death, web users swarmed all over the internet to find out how US intelligence services and special forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, the man who was widely regarded as the world's most-wanted criminal.

'Bin Laden' Google searches increase 1m percent
The terrorist leader's sudden demise at the hands of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs on Sunday night led curious web surfers to search the websites giving detail about the Al-Qaeda leader and his killing by elite Navy SEALs on Sunday night.

Google announced yesterday that it saw an impressive 1 million percent increase Sunday night in searches for the name "bin laden."

Within hours of Osama bin Laden's announced death, web users swarmed all over the internet to find out how US intelligence services and special forces tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden, the man who was widely regarded as the world's most-wanted criminal.

The search mammoth announced the surge in Bin Laden queries on its official Google Twitter account.

“On May 1 between 7:30-8:30 pm PST, we saw a 1 million percent increase in searches for [bin laden],” reads a statement Google posted to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon.

Google also tweeted a chart showing a giant spike in “bin laden” search queries shortly before 11 p.m. EDT, and an overall increase over the course of May 2.

Laden death queries also surged on other portals
Other search engines and social networking websites also released data of their increased activity around news Osama bin Laden’s death.

Yahoo revealed Monday that searches for “Osama Bin Laden” increased 98,550 percent Sunday evening.

Akamai recorded a 24 percent spike in global web traffic, registering 4. 1 million page views per minute to top news sites at 11:30 p.m. ET Sunday.

Microblogging site Twitter confirmed that it too had a busy night following the Laden’s death news. According to Twitter, thousands of tweets began pouring in even before the official confirmation of the news announced by President Obama.

From 7:45 pm to 11:20 pm Pacific Time, there was a traffic spike of 3,000 tweets per second, with a 5,106 tweet-per-second peak at the highest point.

Bin Laden’s death and sea burial
The mastermind behind Al Qaeda, Bin Laden was killed in the dark Sunday night attack where some two dozen elite Navy SEALs with night-vision goggles and M4 carbine rifles stormed Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, a town 35 miles north of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

The SEALs found the world's most wanted terrorist in the upper floor of the building. Bin Laden is said to have used a woman, possibly his own wife, as a human shield to protect him as he came under fire from U.S. forces.

The woman was shot in front of him, and when the terror chief refused to surrender to the forces, a Seal shot him in the left eye, ending a 10-year manhunt in few minutes.

Within hours of his killing, the terrorist leader’s body was put aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and then placed into the North Arabian Sea for burial.