Article on Wired.com: Web Surfers Flock to Al-Jazeera.
In spite of being mostly knocked offline, the website of Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera was among the most sought-after on the Internet last week.
The Web portal Lycos (Terra Lycos is the parent company of Wired News) reported that “Al-Jazeera” and variant spellings became its top search term last week, with three times more searches than “sex.” *
More popular than sex? They must have some really talented web designers. Either that or they’re offering more than just news.