We announced on Tuesday that The Royal Wedding had smashed all online streaming records, but it’s come to light that another website recieved a record number of hits during the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Yahoo!
The third-largest search engine announced a huge surge in traffic last Friday, in a statment made through official company channels:
“Yahoo sites serving Royal Wedding content drove 400 million page views on Friday, slightly higher than the traffic levels experienced following the Japan earthquake.
Yahoo delivered Royal Wedding content at a record-breaking 50,000 requests per second on Friday, seven times the average daily peak of approximately 7,500, and video traffic was 21 percent higher than the previous record. In comparison, there were approximately 33,000 requests-per-second following the Japan earthquake and today, at press time, peak requests-per-second was 40,000 for content related to the death of Osama bin Laden. Yahoo! also drove approximately 30 million unique users, 27 million video streams and 2.6 million live video streams over the 24-hour period on Friday.”
Yahoo have recently adopted Bing’s algorithm to power their search results, and are currently trialling an answer to Google Instant on their US site.
