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Using Google to Calculate Web Decay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bit-rot-quantified dept.

scottennis writes: "Google has yet another application: measuring the rate of decay of information on the web. By plotting the number of results at 3,6, and 12 months for a series of phrases, this study claims to have uncovered a corresponding 60-70-80 percent decay rate. Essentially, 60% of the web changes every 3 months." You may be amused by some of the phrases he notes as exceptional, too.

18 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. attempt at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    f0rst!

    1. Re:attempt at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You think you're pretty innovative in combining "first" and "p0st" in one word?
      bwt, you FUCKEDD OF in your lame useless, UNinnnovative attempt in doint frist prost.
      Try harder next time. Buttfuck.

  2. What I really want to know... by kvn299 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is the rate of decay of the brain after looking at all those naughty pictures!

  3. Well, by popeyethesailor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To arrest that decay rate, here's my contribution.

    Bill Gates SUCKS
    Bill Gates SUCKS
    Bill Gates SUCKS !!
    BASE BASE BASE
    BASE BASE BASE
    BASE BASE BASE
    Late at Night
    Late at Night
    Late at Night
    life's short play hard
    life's short play hard
    life's short play hard
    blessed are the cheese makers
    blessed are the cheese makers
    blessed are the cheese makers

    I request all members of the forum to link this post in all the websites you could access, and post this message too :)

  4. Eternity by tanveer1979 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bill gates sucks

    He used to suck, sucks and will suck forever. this phrase is eternity and wil be there till forever. Googles will come and go, the net will decay and do radioactiavity but the eternal truth will remain forever --
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  5. Re:baseline by foniksonik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Personally I'd be interested in seeing what the numbers are on interpretations of that phrase (never to be uttered again) might be. Was it in reference to a database hack (frontbase) or something more carnal?

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    A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
  6. Re:At last! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey i know you, you are a troll.
    Try to gather karma, for doing +1 goatse trolls ?

    I'll watch you...

  7. Re:Obligatory Full Text by amateursurgeon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ./ should develop a system for caching/mirroring linked web pages hosted on sites like angelfire. That way the poor linkee's ste wouldn't get squished!

  8. Re:Google/CowboyNeal Study by maccallr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's the graph, kind-of... CowboyNeal's balanced diet. But I guess it's really just another blatant plug... :-)

  9. slashdotted by tps12 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You may be amused by some of the phrases he notes as exceptional, too.

    What will I be amused by?!?

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  10. Re:Study claims ?? by echucker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up. It's probably one of the most telling replies so far. That being said, I'd bet that pure hits for a phrase mean absolutely nothing. "Life is short, play hard" is a corporate motto. This should be static just by its very nature. Unless you check the FULL CONTENT of each and every page, you won't be able to tell how much a site has really changed.

  11. *BSD found DEAD with a BULLET in it's BRAIN!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yahoo!! Let's drink to that!!

  12. Re:Obligatory Full Text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Posters should read the faq before they post a request that has been asked a thousand times before. See here.

  13. WARNING: CMDRTACO IMPOSTER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is a fake CmdrTaco. The real CmdrTaco uas userid #1.

  14. Re:Obligatory Full Text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That entire entry is pretty pointless right now.
    Considering that we would not notice if we had to wait 6 hours more to have an already old story posted.

    Basically the entry could probably be summed up with "Cmdrtaco does not want to devote any time to slashdot to perhaps code this feature".

  15. Haiku by Darth+Paul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Indeed life is short
    Gone are the cheesemakers, but
    Bill gates always sucks

  16. Re:baseline by colmore · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it was in reference to a very badly translated video game.

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  17. Re:Google Study in Another Place by camelrider · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you!