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Submitted by mikejuk on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:54AM

mikejuk writes "The news that Wikipedia has announced that it will go dark might encourage others to protest in the same way — but be careful how you do it. There is a right way and a wrong way to black out a website. If you don't want Google and other search engines to decide that you have have made permanent changes you need to do more than just put up a protest page in place of your usual content."
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by Short Circuit (52384) writes:

...I expect the answer would be to return an HTTP 503 status, along with with the full HTML document explaining what's going on.

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