Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I believe I have a promising fix for that.  By adding a <link
> rel="canonical"> to the documentation pages that point to the "current"
> version, search engines will be encouraged to return the current version
> search results.

I don't think this "encourages" them to return the current version. I
believe it teaches them that they should only ever return the current
version and the old versions are just copies of it that should never
be returned.

We could perhaps adopt that attitude altogether though. Treat all the
versions as the same page with a selector at the top between the
versions. When you land on a page if you don't pass an explicit
version as a parameter always assume the current version. Unless
people start linking to specific versions in which case the problem
starts all over.