Broken Links No More?

johndoejersey writes "Students in England have developed a tool which could bring the end to broken links. Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. IBM have already filed 2 patents for the project. 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. Here is another story on it." See also the BBC story.

Comments

Wow

[Xoknit]

This is AMAZING. The intarweb will never be the same.

Re:Can someone say "Bad Idea Jeans"?

[TCM]

You probably bookmark your A/C posts so you can slip back and check them.

Eh, there are people that don't do this? Not doing it would be like admitting you don't actually want to participate in a discussion but rather just troll and fire-and-forget remarks.

AC is not automatically troll or don't-bother-reading. Not for me at least.