A week ago USA Today carried story on Star Wars websites and the hpye associated with Episode II. Here's a clip:

The force is alive and well in cyberspace as millions of eager Star Wars fans click away in anticipation of Star Wars: Episode II ? Attack of the Clones, which opens in theaters May 16.

Whether it's news and gossip, photos and videos or merchandise and movie tickets, you can probably find the information you're looking for on one of about 3 million Star Wars-related Web pages, according to Jim Ward, vice president of marketing at LucasFilm.

"On StarWars.com (www.starwars.com), we've been seeing traffic build and build as the film approaches ? it's now the No. 1 film Web site out there," Ward said.

LucasFilm's official home on the Web, StarWars.com features 5,000 pages of information and media, including daily news, related fiction such as comics and books, movie trailers and more than a dozen exclusive Web documentary videos about the making of the upcoming feature film.

Movie trailers ? which are longer and more cinematic on the Net than on television ? are the most popular features at StarWars.com, Ward said. For example, the week StarWars.com posted the "Forbidden Love" Episode II trailer, its traffic spiked to more than 100 million page views.

"Actually, we were the first to put trailers on the Net back in November 1998 for Episode I," Ward said. The combined Phantom Menace trailers were downloaded more than 30 million times.