'Bin Laden' Google Searches Increase 1 Million Percent (SCREENSHOT)

This may not come as a surprise, but it's certainly impressive.

Google announced on its Twitter account today that Sunday night's searches for the term "Bin Laden" experienced a tremendous increase. The search giant saw an impressive 1 million percent increase Sunday night in searches for the name.

As impressive as that sounds, it looks even better.

The chart, also tweeted by Google, shows a giant spike shortly before 11 p.m. EDT, and an overall increase over the course of May 2. You can see for yourself below.

Oddly, the term takes a sharp dip following the President's announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

Google's tweet announcing the increase:

On May 1 between 7:30-8:30 pm PST, we saw a 1 million percent increase in searches for [bin laden] http://goo.gl/MlWC2less than a minute ago via Tap11 Favorite Retweet ReplyA Googler
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The search spike, from Google:

Comments

[zipbobrobert]

11:07 AM on 05/04/2011

Glad to be on board as a new user. Thanks!

[alain miles]

03:15 AM on 05/04/2011

Yup - emphasizes that Osama was probably the world's most successful indie writer and broadcaster. But how come he never got a book deal?

[Grace Amber]

10:57 PM on 05/03/2011

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This blog is dedicated to compiling a variety of Facebook statuses responding to the death of Osama Bin Laden. Several recurring themes include: patriotic/nationalistic, celebratory, vulgar/rascist, humorous (or, intended humorous), 9-11 reflection, and anti-Obama sentiments.

[Mohammed Abbas]

10:57 PM on 05/03/2011

1mil% in an hour?...and it took me at the very least 4 hours to hear anything about it.

[moogaloog]

10:55 PM on 05/03/2011

what the hell? i didn't even hear about it till 11.

[EJones429]

03:00 AM on 05/04/2011

you do know that's PST and not EST, right?

[moogaloog]

03:45 AM on 05/04/2011

now i do