Does Google remove the PageRank coming from links on pages that no longer exist?

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Robert Enriquez from Charlotte asks: "Websites lose back links due to other websites going out of business or closing (Geocities, AOL, member pages). Does Google remove the back link juice that once came from these pages?"



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