For Sale Web tool may banish broken links

[janpaul]

"Students have developed a tool which could mean broken weblinks are history. Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. It works by automatically mapping and storing key features of webpages, so it can detect significant content changes. The students said Peridot could protect companies by spotting links to sites that have been removed, or which point to wholly unsuitable content."

"Peridot could lead to a world where there are no more broken links," James Bell, computer science student at the University of Warwick, told BBC News Online.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3666660.stm


Will this mean the end of expiring domain catching?

 

[JuniperPark]

I wrote a script that did this years ago and still use it. I didn't kill domain catching.

 

[insomnia]

Not necessarily the death of expired domain catching, but a blow to domains that have lasted a long time with link popularity.

 

[mike031]

there is literally a ton of people who already use such programs, mostly edu/gov organizations and have been for years now... question is, do you think every person on the web who runs a site will buy such a program or spend time on fixing broken links every day or week, time after time? the more links and the more content, the better... and that's the bottom line.

 

[theparrot]

what is a bit different about this one is it seems to claim that it will replace broken links and not just detecte them

 

[MediaHound]

there is literally a ton of people who already use such programs, mostly edu/gov organizations and have been for years now... question is, do you think every person on the web who runs a site will buy such a program or spend time on fixing broken links every day or week, time after time? the more links and the more content, the better... and that's the bottom line.

Especially if we develop the domains as soon as we get them. (or at least as fast as we can) Too many people have domains that need to be developed, and not enough motivation to do it. Or at least fast enough to keep up with the portfolio ratio of domains vs. sites.
Put content there that wouldn't let these scripts detect a bad link, or more importantly, for the satisfaction of the site visitors. Give them what they're looking for.