I always joke about wanting to break the Internet with my online shenanigans, but at one point on Thursday evening, after the unexpected death of legendary pop star Michael Jackson was announced, it felt like the Internet was breaking under the strain of web users searching for the latest information.

Celebrity news websites which were first with the news such as TMZ, the American celebrity gossip site which originally broke the story, and infamous celebrity blogs like Perez Hilton, also suffered periods of down time.

Google confirmed to that when the news first broke it feared it was under attack. More >