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Woods scandal spikes internet traffic News Sports Entertainment Radio TV My Region Member Centre Login Sign UpHalifax (Shearwater) Change City9c Tomorrow0c Snow and blowing snow Hockey Headlines Scoreboard Standings Stats NHL Schedule Teams Players Hockey Night in Canada Highlights Fantasy Pool FIFA World Cup Vancouver Now Football Headlines CFL Scoreboard CFL Standings CFL Stats CFL Teams NFL Scoreboard NFL Standings NFL Stats NFL Teams NFL Players Video Alpine Skiing Curling Figure Skating Basketball NBA Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Basketball News Feed Baseball MLB Scoreboard Standings Stats Teams Players Baseball News Feed Soccer MLS Scoreboard MLS Standings International Stats Soccer News Feed Amateur Sports Golf Tennis Auto Racing Story Tools EMAIL PRINT Text Size S M L XL REPORT TYPO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK Woods scandal spikes internet traffic Last Updated Thursday December 10 2009 722 PM ET The Associated Press Tiger Woods troubles have translated into high internet traffic (William WestGetty Images)Like any good celebrity scandal the Tiger Woods drama has triggered a spike in traffic to websites offering details of his US Thanksgiving weekend car crash and his alleged extramarital affairsThe lift will likely be fleeting though as the shock of the story wears offOne of the most heavily trafficked sites has been Woodss own site where he has posted his only public comments about his crash and admitted to transgressionsThe site got 488000 unique visitors the week of his crash up from fewer than 11000 the week before according to The Nielsen CoThe Orlando Sentinel which serves the area of Woodss home scored about 12 million unique visitors the week of the crash more than 2 times the number of visitors the week before Nielsen saidMeanwhile visits to the entertainment site TMZcom and sports news site Deadspincom which both had scoops on the Woods story increased more than 50 per cent according to Hitwise another web analysis firmGoogle Inc and Yahoo Inc which process more than 80 per cent of all internet searches in the US said theyve seen a leap in traffic from people looking for information on the golf superstarYahoo says searches for Woodss name have increased nearly 4000fold over the last 30 daysNeither Google nor Yahoo would provide specifics about how many more people were searchingThe traffic bump is not as pronounced as those that surrounded pop star Michael Jacksons death in June and US President Barack Obamas inauguration in January both companies saidHowever Yahoo chief executive officer Carol Bartz told an investor conference in New York this week that the Woods story was better than Michael Jackson dying when it came to helping Yahoo make money because it is easier to sell ads next to salacious contentIts kind of hard to put an ad up next to a funeral she saidBartz even said Woods w...