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At last,
the contents of Aardvark's "million-dollar ideas" notebook
are revealed for all to see!
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The great thing about the web is that when you make a mistake it's pretty
simple and quick to fix it up.
Unlike a printed brochure, newspaper or book, webpages can effectively be recalled
and republished at will and at very low cost. It become simple to hide your
mistakes if you act quickly.
Or is it?
Well NZ Post found out the hard way that it's simple to overlook the basics
when updating your website.
Recently they revised the content and structure of their website to reflect
new prices for international postal items. Unfortunately, although they
added new pages with the revised prices, they didn't remove the old ones.
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Here is the old page
(still online as of this morning) which I know was bookmarked
by a number of users who needed to regularly refer to this information.
And here is the new page
which came into effect on January 1 and is now the "current information."
According to the old page it costs just $2.50 to send a large envelope by
airmail to the USA. However, the new page will tell you that the price
is now $3.00.
Okay, so prices go up -- but why the hell hasn't NZ Post taken down the old
webpage or at least put a redirect through to the new one so that people don't
inadvertently post their letters with insufficient postage?
But of course -- even when NZ Post do get around to taking down that old page,
it will live on in
Google's cache!
Which raises the interesting question -- I wonder how many people wish that
Google hadn't archived their old pages?
And isn't Google infringing millions of individual copyrights with its cached
copies?
Several years ago the developer of the excellent
searchnz.co.nz search
engine encountered some very real problems when at least one site it archived
complained bitterly, alleging a breach of copyright.
What do you think? Is Google's caching of webpages a breach of copyright or
just a great idea?
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