Re: an attempt to fix the Google search problem

> On Nov 10, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> If we want to Google searches to always reach the current version unless a
>> version is explicitly searched, instrumenting the links to the older versions
>> with nofollow while keeping them in the sitemap.xml should work. It does mean
>> that we kill the accumulated PageRank on the older pages though (which either
>> of these schemes do AFAICT).
>
> Do people really search for something with a specific version
> specified? I've never done that, because I rarely particularly need
> to, and because I think that it wouldn't work.

I do quite often. Usually because the question I'm asking is "did feature X exist in version Y".

It's not great, but it gives useful results more often than not.

Cheers,
Steve