[ NNSquad ] The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history

http://j.mp/SgjSvu  (Gigaom)

   "In fact, the researchers said that within a year of these events, an
    average of 11 percent of the material that was linked to had
    disappeared completely (and another 20 percent had been archived), and
    after two-and-a-half years, close to 30 percent had been lost
    altogether and 41 percent had been archived. Based on this rate of
    information decay, the authors predicted that more than 10 percent of
    the information about a major news event will likely be gone within a
    year, and the remainder will continue to vanish at the rate of .02
    percent per day."

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--Lauren--
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