Web Page Expiration Dates
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 8/1/2015 1:00:00 AM
There are billions of outdated web pages online.
One of the most frustrating things about the Internet is that it's often hard to know when you're reading something that's outdated. While some content is timeless, some content is not, and there currently is no system to determine when the content you're reading is no longer useful.
I'm not advocating that every web page have an expiration date, but if there was such a system in place, it would allow content providers to designate when any given page should be ignored. By designating that a page has an expiration date of 30 days, it will let the search engines know that they shouldn't display it after that, unless the page owner updates the content, and changes the expiration date.
Some news sites for example release breaking news before getting all the facts. Pages like that should have automatic expirations of just a few hours, including any comments made by the readers. Although some may feel this is censorship, keeping incorrect information online indefinitely can only cause problems.
Personally, I'd love to see short automatic expiration dates on a lot of Internet fads, so they go away quicker.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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