NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- For those of you out there doubting the power of online news and how fast it travels consider this: Headline Surfer's story on the Holly Hill man charged with murder for allegedly gunning down his housemate over a spoiled pork chop, was posted only an hour ago and already is atop the Google News Directories for Daytona Beach and among the top accessed stories trending online at mid-day.
Headline Surfer (via HeadlineSurfer.com) was the fourth-ranked news site nationally on the Google search engines behind the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and the Houston Chronicle.
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Here is the link to our story: http://headlinesurfer.com/content/410901-holly-hill-cops-argument-between-housemates-over-spoiled-pork-chop-leads-bloodshed.
The local Internet newspaper posted its story at 9:21 a.m., headlined, Holly Hill cops: Argument between housemates over spoiled pork chop leads to bloodshed.
At noontime, Headline Surfer's version was among the sites most accessed on the story of a middle-aged Holly Hill man charged with second-degree murder for allegedly shooting a roommate at near point-blank range with a .22-caliber Ruger rifle because of an argument over a spoiled pork chop.
The difference between these other organizations and the local Internet newspaper? They're all media giants, while Headline Surfer is one of the smallest media outlets in the world with a staff of one.
Still, a story is a story, and this one is bizarre to say the least. In case you're wondering, The Daytona Beach News-Journal was not among the top 50 media outlets listed.
The Google snapshot snapshot above shows the leading media outlets accessed for the pork chop slaying story. The Huffington Post was No. 1 followed by the Los Angeles Times at No. 2, the Houston Chronicle at No. 3 and Headline Surfer at No. 4.
The snapshot below shows Headline Surfer among the cited images in the Google News Directories for the pork chop slaying story that was trending at mid-day on the Internet.
