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It is too bad that they have to shut down access to the entire site to stay alive. I wonder if that will hurt their search engine rankings.

I think its a shame they shut it down as well. I can't say about the search engine ranking, but I doubt it would hurt them too badly if it did.

I image most of their readers reach wikileaks are direct from blogs, news articles, etc.

I if remember correctly they mentioned during the 26c3 talk that they get 40% of their traffic from search engines.