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link rot 

the process by which a web link becomes broken or irrelevant as time goes on
The site was plagued with link rot.
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link happy 

When you are surfing the web and you keep clicking on links bouncing from page to page to page or using a search engine to find something else you stumbled upon. You eventually wind up far from where you started.
I was reading a story about Obama and somehow ended up on a page about circus clowns because I was link happy.
link happy by crys41 March 11, 2008

link trade 

trading website links of similar topics
last night, I was researching flights to Bali and then did a link trade with my mate for accommodation info.
link trade by redzac September 14, 2009

Link Tangent 

To click on one link and to be brought to that page, only to find another interesting link on that page and end up clicking on that. This is a common thing that happens on sites like wikipedia and imdb.
Todd got on a link tangent on wikipedia by starting to read about the Spotted Owl and ended up reading about Jackie Chan.
Link Tangent by dr_waffles February 6, 2010

link jumping 

When you follow one url to another and another until you no longer remember what you were first searching for.

Commonly done when browsing Wikipedia for extended periods of time.
Why am I suddenly reading about Romanian heavy metal bands when i should be doing my history essay? Must have been link jumping again
link jumping by SalemGrey November 15, 2014

Link Downer 

one who sends morose or depressive web links either by email, instant chat messages or cell phone texts.
Michael Weinreich is a such a link downer; he's always sending me gchat web links to some suicide or government conspiracy cover-up. Loser!
Link Downer by Rudetoodo January 29, 2009