Have you heard about 'dead web sites'? It is about the websites which end their life on net after a bit. What happens to these after their death? Is there a repository where you can trace them? Does any one keep statistical data how many sites are dying daily or monthly? Which country or which class has really the largest cementry of websites? Is there a study about the explanations of their death? The questions could go on. The concept about this dark part of net came up when I was surfing on a shortwave radio in the middle of the night. All of a sudden , I caught the words 'Tod und Sterben im Internet' from a German channel. But what does it really mean? I will not give a better description than the following I found on the internet. 'They are born, they grow, they are loved by a couple they communicate a couple of things, and then they're going on to die.

The death of an internet site sometimes goes unmarked, unobserved, and unrecognized. A dead web site is no longer a valuable enterprise but a historical record, a fiercely marked sector of time. A domain which has died gets no funeral, no sendoff, no eulogy, and frequently gets no last words.

Sites appear to die a peculiar death - they're both awfully public and extraordinarily personal organisms, made by a living few as a living audience and when they pass, the act of viewing them or reflecting on them is intrinsically solitary. You'd think the Google Robot which spiders each online info and transfers it to earning would also have an answer to this engaging problem. Unfortunatly, after searching for a week I wasn't capable of finding any answer at Google or Google Lab. To the contrary, I revealed that search engines typically don't like dead sites. One of their princpiles is to supply more exact and content dynamic sites in their results.

So they loathe dead sites, dead links and each site that has any scent of death. They even don't love what we would call exhausted sites, sites which are build up ones and never modified or worked on later. These may also be translated as potantially dead or close to dead and are so placed at the base of the search results. The searchengines won't be curious about them but that does not decrease their significance for the history of the web or social-economic sciences. The questions discussed at the top are worth studying this problem in depth. Still, it should be discussed the general interest in the subject is still waiting. Essentially the few info that are available on the net already give a pointer to the approaching up. If you type an URL in their 'waybackmaschine', you could get screenshot results from 1996 on. It is fascinating to follow the development of the planning of some today highly regarded sites. Archive.org is attached to Alexa and thus shows only the sites which are 'caught' by Alexa. A site already promotes itself with 'How to bring your website to life again'.

Like their co-operators in the company world, they guarantee to bring life in a dead internet site. Another internet site explains how you gain benefit from a dead internet site.

You also have a travel site and know that x is out of life.

Unfortunatly, the social rule appears to be valid also over here. Like the Dutch expression announces : 'For the one it is his passing, for the other his bread. '.