I don’t necessarily think we need any body to clear up old blogs. There’s still plenty of useful information in some of them. Rather, we just need to accept that the search engines are still learning and it will be a while before they accurately take timing into account.

I can very much identify with the thoughts of Seren Dippity, but sometimes I might not be concerned about age and so de-valuing older sites would not be a good thing.

Basically, the ‘net is still evolving and it will sort itself out. It just takes time.

This is a huge fault with Google. They rank websites according to age but they don’t seem to consider the fact that people want up to date info.

I would really love to know how many abandoned blogs there are on the Internet – I bet it’s a lot.

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c: For someone new to blogging, I take it you have a blog. I wonder why you don’t link your name to it. Next time, when you are asked to choose an identity, you have the option to type in your URL. Wouldn’t you want other people to visit your blog?

David: I agree there is useful information in a lot of blogs. But there is a lot of useless information in a lot of blogs, too. I don’t know how to remove one set but keeping the other set. Maybe a rating system?

Writer Dad: The problem, in many cases, is the original blog owner doesn’t leave contact information. If it’s a domain, that’s one thing for the information is usually stored in the registrar’s database, but I refer to blogs in the form of x.blogspot.com or x.wordpress.com, etc.

Stetoscope: Umm, ok?

Seren: I’m afraid it’s impossible to have an internet police in the traditional sense of the word. But going to back to what I asked in my response to David, how about some sort of rating system? I have some ideas, which I’ll make the subject of an upcoming post.

Not nearly as irritating as searching for an event and finding links to years gone by. Searching for festivals in the Dallas area showed links to sites that describes the 2004 event as if it were scheduled for next weekend.

And yet it is equally frustrating to click a link in someone’s blog to get the details of a news story only to find the article no longer there.

I don’t like the idea of an internet police, but it would be great if there were standards for archiving and maintaining websites and even greater if people would be willing to actually follow them.

I’d be mightily pissed off to discover someone had culled my child just because I’d lost touch…