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(Internet) The steady increase in number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

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/ˈlɪŋkɹɒt/

Noun

Internet uncountable

(Internet) The steady increase in number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

Japanese Meaning

ウェブページの移動や削除に伴い、ハイパーリンクが切れる現象。

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Archivists worry that linkrot will gradually erode the usefulness of online references in academic papers.

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アーカイブ担当者は、ウェブページの移動や削除によるリンク切れの増加が、学術論文におけるオンライン参考文献の有用性を徐々に損なうことを懸念している。

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(Internet) The steady increase in number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.

It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”

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