Re: Search points to ancient manuals

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au> wrote:
> On 11/01/2012 06:00 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> We already do this for Google, so it shouldn't be rocket science.
>
> I still routinely see 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3 results in searches. For example, my
> first hit for a Google search for EXPLAIN ANALYZE is
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-explain.html
>
> I've often wished that the docs would redirect to the /current/interactive
> version when the referer is google. Not enough to write the code yet,
> though.

Good grief no! I often do things like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=explain+analyze+postgresql+8.3

What would be nice would be for Google to pay more attention to the
ranking hints we already give them in the site map.

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