As I said in an earlier message, there's no need to have a separate domain to restrict queries to just the doc/current part of python.org. Just type "site:python.org/doc/current your query here"
If there isn't any other rationale, maybe we can redirects docs.python.org back to www.python.org? Jeremy On 2/15/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/15/06, Tim Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > (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.) > > > Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of > > page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and > > the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms) > > has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both > > algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every > > few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they > > generally clear up any supplemental results). > > OK, perhaps I stand corrected. I don't actually know that much about PageRank! > > I still don't like docs.python.org, and adding more like it seems a > mistake; but it's possible that this is because of a poor execution of > the idea (there's no "search docs" button near the search button on > the old python.org). > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/jeremy%40alum.mit.edu > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
