If you are looking for a short sharp demonstration of the need to adopt an institutional / corporate web preservation policy have a play with this little tool from Google. Confining searches to the number of pages Google had indexed in January 2001 ( 1,326,920,00) it shows unequivocally the transience of many web links and resources from that period.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Disappearing digital resources
If you are looking for a short sharp demonstration of the need to adopt an institutional / corporate web preservation policy have a play with this little tool from Google. Confining searches to the number of pages Google had indexed in January 2001 ( 1,326,920,00) it shows unequivocally the transience of many web links and resources from that period.
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..and irony of ironies it too has disappeared.
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