(16.) "
Link rot refers to the URL no longer serving up any content at all.
(7.) Including Professors Zittrain and Lessig in their recent study of
link rot in court cases (see, Jonathan Zittrain, Kendra Albert and Lawrence Lessig, Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No.
Link rot, however, promises to create real mischief in significant ways:
or non-government) do not affect the rate of
link rot. These two aspects
Link rot has been identified as a critical problem on the web.
Of course, some of the URLs given have disappeared; however, this inevitable "
link rot" does not significantly detract from the usability of Indexing: The manual of good practice.
Broken links (or "
link rot") can be an indication of the Webmaster's commitment to maintaining a current Web page or site, and provide clues as to the extensiveness of any updates.
Second it appears that a correspondingly high rate of citation
link rot (19) is occurring.