[icernet] Al Jazeera is popular online in the U.S.

[Arul Selvan]

The AP reports that Al Jazeera is a hot search topic on the Web, requested up to three times more than the always popular "sex" query on some search engines. Although its new English language Web site was hacked into several times last week, American Web surfers interest in the Qatar-based media group piqued after they aired footage of dead American soldiers, which they later removed until families of the deceased could be notified. A new study by Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed 999 American Web users and found that 10% of them turned to foreign news sites to read War coverage, while 32% used U.S. news sites. But Al Jazeera isn't the only source of news offering an Arab perspective on the war. Others include: Arabia.com, Arab News and the Jordan Times, which are government-owned.

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