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Did she really!
Well guess what? - I know how they vanish too - in one word!
GOOGLE
As a wrinkly person old enough to remember the Internet before this monstrous organisation appeared I can tell you, for nothing, that there was much more free, in-depth info. online using brilliant search engines like Dogpile, Webcrawler, Infoseek, Lycos, etc. or roaming around inside dear old, much-missed Geocities.
Google is absolutely ruining the Web, from a researcher's viewpoint.
Very soon the Internet will be one big comercial, plastic, fake waste of time and researchers will have to return to the libraries.
If they can?
But - Oh Dear - the libraries are all closing and all their non-fiction books are being flogged off on Amazon!
Amazon has been set - up to empty our libraries IMHO!
- even the universities are chucking all their books out -
FACT! I have seen skips full of Sheffield University's beautiful books, leather-bound, etc. left out in the winter rain and snow to be deliberately ruined.
I managed to salvage some and have kept them.