Originally Posted by
ajGoes
Washington State is the home of Microsoft's Bing search engine. I bet the vast majority of the hits the Mail reports there are from Bing robots.
That's a theory, but how come DM cannot differentiate between a genuine visit and a bot. And where is the corresponding Googlebot activity in CA?
That said, and applying stereotypes here. WA certainly isn't the state that would spring to mind when picking a state that would resonate to the chime of DM's "holy bollocks we're going to hell in a handcart" brand of journalism.
Maybe it is a failed DDoS attack by the Spokane chapter of Anonymous.