Good Technology

I got an email recently from the LPI (Lunar and Planetary Institute).

The following pages on your website contain at least one broken link to our old website, http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov.

http://www.xlab.co.uk/read/278

Our website is now located at http://www.lpi.usra.edu. Please update your
site, replacing any links or references to "cass.jsc.nasa.gov" with
"www.lpi.usra.edu".

If you have received this in error, please forward to the appropriate
parties.

Thank-you.

Isn’t that a good use of technology? In doing this, the path to content on their site is preserved and search engines such as Google continue to filter through the links, maintaining the site’s rankings.

It would have been easy for the LPI to do nothing when they moved servers, but I’m impressed at the effort they’ve gone to in preventing link rot. It shows a level of care not usually seen in large corporations.

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