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Almost 40% of webpages from 2013 no longer exist a decade on, research finds

The internet is disappearing, a new study has suggested, as web pages and online content is lost. The effect means that vast amounts of news and important reference content are disappearing. The study was completed by gathering a random samples of almost a million webpages, taken from Common Crawl, a service that archives parts of the internet.

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