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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. (Credit: Zscaler) "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 today's (1/18) Wikipedia protest against SOPA." 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 . Zscaler's stats break down to about a 365 percent increase in visits to Wikipedia's SOPA Initiative page and around a 77 percent increase across SOP...

Google's infographic on the fight against SOPA. Google's homepage today shows a thick black censorship stamp across its colorful logo. And, if clicked on, it leads users to a  "End Piracy, Not Liberty" petition  that asks people to sign-on to protest the  two anti-piracy laws  to be voted on by Senate and Congress. "Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.," the petition reads. "Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late." Over the course of the day, millions of people signed onto Google's petition. "The last number we released was at 4:30pm ET," said Google spokesperson Christine Chen. "At that point we were at 4.5 million signatories and counting." This search-giant is showing that it is in lock step with hundreds of other individuals, groups, and Web sites that either sent out their ...