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What's On CloudFlare's Mind

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On May 2, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Matthew Prince from CloudFlare reported that they observed a significant increase in search traffic related to Osama bin Laden's death. Prior to President Obama's address, around 1.5% of searches contained the term "Osama," up from nearly zero in the previous 24 hours. A second peak occurred after Obama finished speaking. The graph illustrates the spike in search traffic for "Osama" and a more steady stream of searches for "Obama."

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
May 2, 2011

Author(s)
Matthew Prince

Word count
176

Language
English

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