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Re:The web starts on page four by eitland on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:21PM (#30180640)
I thought about this too.

After testing with marginalia I found that much of it is still there - it is just suppressed by Google and Bing.

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Re:The web starts on page four by dylan604 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:50PM (#30181118)
That is interesting. I would have imagined honest link rot being a much larger problem.
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Re:The web starts on page four by marginalia_nu on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:54PM (#30183929)
My feeling is that the Lindy effect largely holds: The expected lifetime of any given document is proportional to its age. Old websites for the most part seem extremely stable. Young websites change drastically and often.
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