Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. It works by automatically mapping and storing key features of webpages, so it can detect significant content changes.
The students said Peridot could protect companies by spotting links to sites that have been removed, or which point to wholly unsuitable content.
Administration staff have to go through all the links on an intranet - internal website - or external website to check the information being linked to is still relevant.
The web-based Peridot tool registers webpages - either on an intranet or on websites - and follows link targets to compare them to webpages it has previously seen.
"The way we identify the content is through a process called fingerprinting which allows us to take representation of document like a fingerprint," explained Andrew Flegg, IBM software developer and technical mentor for the Peridot team.
"Externally, you have cases of companies that link to disreputable content which could seriously damage their reputation", says James Bell of Peridot
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