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May 16, 2008
Natural Disasters and Turmoil
The devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma) during the week ending 10/05/2008, drove a massive increase in Australian searches online for ‘myanmar’ (620%) and ‘burma’ (3675%). The last time we saw Australian Internet searches on ‘myanmar’ and 'burma' peak was during the Burmese protests in Rangoon in the week ending 29/09/2007. News and Media followed by Education were the top 2 industries to receive traffic from these search terms. Now you know.
Posted by HitwiseToGo at May 16, 2008 08:29 PM
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