| From: | Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net> |
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| To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Christofides <michael(at)pgmustard(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: once more: documentation search indexing |
| Date: | 2022-04-16 15:02:27 |
| Message-ID: | CABV9wwPd4R3aP+ny4dExSaeWr4F=ESkp8POX3oJKMNSRdqxtXA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 6:21 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>
> > On 14 Apr 2022, at 18:23, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 1:25 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> >> If we want to keep outdated version away from the search results they need a
> >> noindex attribute in <head>:
> >>
> >> <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > Do you think that doing so for out of support releases would improve
> > our search results? Do you see any potential downsides?
>
> I don't really have a good answer, googlebot et.al acts in mysterious ways. It
> shouldn't affect searching for up to date information since we identify
> /current as the canonical version of pages in backbranches (supported or not).
> But if an 8.4 page is indexed and linked to from a gazillion stack overflow
> posts, then who knows how that shifts the results.
>
> Given how it works right now, and what we know, I would err on the side of
> caution and keep them indexed - but that's a highly unscientifically based
> opinion.
>
The immediate use case that comes to mind is folks searching for
documentation in older versions that no longer exists in the /current/
documentation, which is perhaps a small use case but also a fairly
valid one. I reckon there are others if we think about it, so +1 on
leaving the old version indexed for now.
Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net
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