The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

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The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google
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Unfortunately, we are penalized by the modern Internet for leaving all previously published content live on our site

Even if this is true, which I doubt, why not edit your robots.txt to disallow them to index it and leave the content up?

That wouldn’t generate news hype

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