 Gizmodo recently reported that CNET has apparently deleted thousands of old articles. This is an industry-wide practice in response to search engine rankings. And CNET says it maintains archived copies of the deleted pages and sends those to archive.org to make sure they're included in the Wayback machine. Do you think it's Google's fault? Yeah. Like 100%. Everything that happens in modern digital journalism is on some level Google's fault or Facebook's fault. Anybody who is practicing media online is 100% at the behest of Google's algorithm. That is where the traffic comes from. This is the search algorithm working against our best interests. Google is the tail that wags the dog.