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EURSOC has been around for a couple of years now, but we've never seen one story dominate our reader queries like the Danish "cartoon jihad".
Of the 1084 search strings for February 2006, over 80 percent are in some way connected to the cartoons crisis. Last autumn's French riots, another big story for us, didn't capture our reader's attention to anything like this extent - nor did the French rejection of the EU Constitution.
(Search strings, by the way, are those words or phrases that users type into Google or Yahoo, and which bring them to sites like this).
EURSOC is only a small corner of the internet, and we have not been providing the web's most exhaustive coverage of this crisis. We can only extrapolate from the evidence we have to hand, and that evidence suggests that of the 2000-odd people who visit EURSOC every day, most are driven by an interest in the cartoon jihad.
Have other bloggers experienced a similar phenomenon? And what of the big media, who obviously receive many more visitors than EURSOC welcomes? Most have been covering the story in great depth - but have the BBC and the Guardian's webmasters noticed that this story is even bigger than they've made out? And could they even be playing it down?
