World rushes Internet for news of Beijing Olympics

People from around the world have flocked to the Internet for coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games which began on Friday.Big News Network.com hosted a record number of visitors to its site Friday, when it recorded visits by 188,166 unique users.Interest in the Games leading up was evident in the ... ...previous record of 108,185 unique visitors for a day being recorded on the Thursday, the day preceding the opening ceremony in Beijing.Big News Network has an average daily traffic of around 95,000 unique visitors, which means the site nearly doubled its audience for Beijing's opening ceremony. The number of pages hit, was also a record 2.Major news events typically cause spikes in Internet audiences, with the Olympic Games causing an unusually high level of interest as users comb various sites to follow particular sports and the participation by various countries.Many news sites, particularly those affiliated with major television networks are especially popular because of their video coverage.

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