That's what I tried with the webmaster tools. I tried looking now, and
I can't even find it anymore. I think the ability to change it might
have been removed.

Aaron Meurer

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Francesco Bonazzi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess we should somehow make Google aware that we want the docs of the
> "latest" version of SymPy to be the default search results. A big warning
> will probably not solve this problem.
>
> I support a total removal and a permanent redirection to the latest version.
>
>
> On Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:38:28 UTC-4, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I would like input from the broader SymPy community here. Right now,
>> at http://docs.sympy.org/ we have versioned docs for each version
>> going back to 0.6.7, e.g., http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.3/index.html.
>>
>> I am proposing to remove these. The only docs that would be on the
>> docs site are http://docs.sympy.org/latest/ (the default) and
>> http://docs.sympy.org/dev/ (built automatically from master). I am
>> undecided if existing versioned docs pages should be setup to redirect
>> to latest, provide a message, or just 404.
>>
>> Two reasons why I want to do this:
>>
>> - Empirically, many users end up on old docs pages, without
>> intentionally going there. Google search likes to return search
>> results from old docs pages. We have attempted to use the webmaster
>> tools to fix this, but just playing around with some random search
>> terms, it seems they still appear in the top of the results (e.g.,
>> "sympy ln" gives 0.7.1 docs as the first result).
>>
>> - This gives the false impression that we support older versions. We
>> do not support any version of SymPy other than the latest version. We
>> do not make backport releases, except in extreme situations.
>>
>> I am looking for feedback on this, whether you think it's a good idea,
>> a bad idea, or any suggestions.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>
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