Michael Jackson dies

Michael Jackson dies as a result of a heart attack in his LA home.

That's the news that is flooding the internet at the moment.

In fact, it's said that the surge through the search engines for "Michael Jackson dies" was so huge that Google for the first half an hour thought it was a denial of service attack.

You know it's got to be a huge surge when they are worried about servers getting overwhelmed.

The site which first broke the news about Michael Jackson's death, TMZ certainly went down for a time.

One reason why people were searching online, on blogs and the rest, is because the major news organisations were wary of this being another romour, the sort that has always swarmed around Jackson.