On Monday 13 February 2006 15:40, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Shouldn't docs.python.org be removed? It seems to add mroe confusion > than anything, especially since most links on python.org continue to > point to python.org/doc/. docs.python.org was created specifically to make searching the most recent "stable" version of the docs easier (using Google's site: modifier, no less). I don't know what the link count statistics say (other than what you mention), and don't know which gets hit more often, but I still think it's a reasonable approach. I've been switching links to point to docs.python.org whenever I find an older link that points to www.python.org/doc/current/; other parts of the doc/ area from the site didn't move, and perhaps that's a problem that should be addressed. > (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the > importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get > transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the > context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is *not* > going to help PageRank of the new page.) Maybe I'm just not getting why that's relevant. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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