Cleaning up the WWW
No, I'm not talking about getting rid of pr0n or dirty language. I'm talking about getting rid of all the crap pages out there. Not the ones that suck but the ones that are OLD. I was doing a search on frames in html (another thread) and I came across more than a few seriously outdated articles (talking about netscape 2 and ie 3, etc).
I propose that webpages should have an expiration date. Would you be for or against this? Let's get some ideas going here....
I propose that webpages should have an expiration date. Would you be for or against this? Let's get some ideas going here....
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Originally posted by Ebby
Especially all those pages that people bought just to auction to the highest bidder. If they don't want to make a site GIVE UP THE NAME!
Oh man that makes me so fsking mad
I also very much wish that search engines would not hold on to site addresses that don't exist.
Who here has ever tried to search for something obscure, and when you get 10 results, for example, and only one of those ten is worth taking a look at, takes you to a 404 or 502 error page.
The Internet is becoming clogged with spam too, which is more of a problem, in my opinion. m.
Do magazines?
No, but they are indexed...
...by edition
...by volume
...by date
...by revision
...by whatever
Imposing some kind of artificial lifespan on any published work is something so crazy, it's what Michael Jackson would do if he invented the Internet.
The friggin' solution is to improve searching/indexing techniques (on the server side and the human side).
But other stuff - even "out of date" tech stuff - should stay, BUT somehow be flagged or noted easier.
Originally posted by torifile
No, I'm not talking about ... Not the ones that suck but the ones that are OLD. ...
What a fancy idea !!!
Just state for the record, I guess one time you will be pretty much happy to get in some (perhaps outdated) resources, anyway.
It is no great deal to skip them anyway, isn't it? But in the long run they all pay back, - mark my words.
You should rather blame "google" and such for not performing smart searches.
my 2c, of course.
Think, if only for a second.
I have to look up articles from the 1940's sometimes, so...no, I don't think "cleaning house" to any hardcore degree is a good idea.
Originally posted by pscates
Well, I've only suggested that DEAD (as in "nothing there anymore") pages/links. A lot of dead weight and dead ends out there.
You know what's great about these dead links though?
Google Cache and www.archive.org sometimes gobble them up nicely. I've found the current spate of search engines and other reference tools to be more than adequate, and plenty efficient...moreso than what we had before anyway...
Originally posted by Eugene
Think about what you guys are suggesting.
Think, if only for a second.
Done. What happend?
(couldn't resist)
Of course, I don't necessarily believe that because something is old it should be taken off the web. That was more to get the conversation started.
Secondly, there is a very good way of indexing the internet.... It's called meta tags, but greedy spanners choose to abuse these systems to make their sites "more popular" in areas that are not really related to their site.
If people just stuck to the standards and used the technology correctly, then it would work better. But I think there will always be those that abuse the technology to try and increase their popularity.