Amber enlists websites to help banish broken links<article>
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Like a decentralized Wayback Machine, a new tool called Amber is letting individual websites join the fight against link rot.</p><p>
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Amber, web publishers can automatically create a mirror of every page they link to from their own site. That mirror gets stored on the publisher's own server, so even if an external link goes down, visitors to the publisher's site can still view a cached version.</p><p>
For instance, let's say a Microsoft employee
posts an embarrassing rant on the company's blog, and Microsoft pulls the post after it's discovered by the tech press. This would normally result in a dead link, but with Amber, tech sites can store their own cached version of the offending post, allowing users to see the content even after the link goes down.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2880370/amber-enlists-websites-to-help-banish-broken-links.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Amber enlists websites to help banish broken links
