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URL decay at year 20: A research note
Author(s) -
Oguz Fatih,
Koehler Wallace
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23561
Subject(s) - ephemeral key , computer science , sample (material) , set (abstract data type) , world wide web , information retrieval , programming language , physics , algorithm , thermodynamics
All text is ephemeral. Some texts are more ephemeral than others. The web has proved to be among the most ephemeral and changing of information vehicles. The research note revisits Koehler's original data set after about 20 years since it was first collected. By late 2013, the number of URLs responding to a query had fallen to 1.6% of the original sample. A query of the 6 remaining URLs in F ebruary 2015 showed only 2 still responding.