Re: Does Google like old versions of the Postgres docs?

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>
Cc: Chris Mair <chris(at)1006(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Does Google like old versions of the Postgres docs?
Date: 2017-03-16 21:43:50
Message-ID: c1ec673e-76ed-2034-9c30-a78a386a30fe@aklaver.com
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On 03/16/2017 02:27 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Josh Berkus (josh(at)berkus(dot)org) wrote:
>> On 03/16/2017 01:35 PM, Chris Mair wrote:
>>> is it just me, or does Google like old versions of the Postgres
>>> docs?
>>>
>>> I seem to get a first hit pointing to 9.1 very often. Just now I googled
>>>
>>> postgres earthdistance
>>>
>>> and got a pointer to the 8.3 (!) version, even.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts about why that's happening?
>>
>> This has been discussed, several times that I can recall, on pgsql-www.
>> IIRC, our web team is doing something about this, but it's slow to take
>> effect on Google's listings.
>
> My recollection is more along the lines of- we've tried a bunch of stuff
> and nothing seems to work.

Has anyone asked the Django docs team how they do it?

The docs layout is similar:

postgres earthdistance
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/earthdistance.html

django group by
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/db/aggregation/

Where 1.10 is the latest production version.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>

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