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<div align=justify>Although Wikipedia completely blacked out its English language Web site yesterday in protest of potential U.S. antipiracy legislation, traffic on the Web encyclopedia was higher than usual, according to research and analysis company Zscaler. | <div align=justify>Although Wikipedia completely blacked out its English language Web site yesterday in protest of potential U.S. antipiracy legislation, traffic on the Web encyclopedia was higher than usual, according to research and analysis company Zscaler. | ||
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| − | "If you want a quick way of increasing traffic to your website--change or take down portions of your website in protest," Zscaler wrote on its blog yesterday. "At least that is what we have gleaned from | + | "If you want a quick way of increasing traffic to your website--change or take down portions of your website in protest," Zscaler wrote on its blog yesterday. "At least that is what we have gleaned from Wikipedia protest against SOPA (1/18)." |
Graphs on the Zscaler blog show that unique Wikipedia visits during the blackout were higher than surrounding days. However, Zscaler notes that these visitors were bouncing off the site fairly quickly and the majority of visits were to Wikipedia's main page and SOPA Initiative page. | Graphs on the Zscaler blog show that unique Wikipedia visits during the blackout were higher than surrounding days. However, Zscaler notes that these visitors were bouncing off the site fairly quickly and the majority of visits were to Wikipedia's main page and SOPA Initiative page. | ||
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Although Wikipedia stated on its site that, "visitors were not able to read the encyclopedia, and instead saw messages about SOPA and PIPA," there was a fairly simple workaround that involved users going to Wikipedia's cached version of any desired topic. | Although Wikipedia stated on its site that, "visitors were not able to read the encyclopedia, and instead saw messages about SOPA and PIPA," there was a fairly simple workaround that involved users going to Wikipedia's cached version of any desired topic. | ||
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| + | ''Taken from http://news.cnet.com'' | ||
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