Tracking 657,607 Links Reveals the Accelerating Decay of the Old Web
tdx · hn · 2026-08-14
A study tracked over 657,000 web links, revealing severe "link rot" across the modern internet.
- Large-scale evidence: The analysis quantified the proportion and trend of dead links.
- AI data quality concerns: As LLMs rely heavily on scraped web data, the loss of high-quality historical pages directly threatens future model training and long-term reliability.
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