GTA 4 and The Sims 3 in Top 10 Searches in Russia in 2009

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The leading Russian search engine Yandex, which holds over a half of Russian searches, has released a list of top searches (Zeitgeist Russia) in 2009. The searches for GTA 4 and The Sims 3, which are the names of the computer games GTA 4 released by Rockstar Games and The ...

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Google Thought Michael Jackson Search Surge Was Malware Attack

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Twitter may have broke the story, but the increase in search traffic at Google Thursday was first seen as a malware attack Google admitted. The Google News site had to shut down briefly leaving a message that read: "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer ...

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