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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/9a6815a0-1509-4e36-b6a7-8c24cd8cfc28%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6JzJ8tDJ5LLM5dggV74q56G4KNKHSgV03VqHgQrKOV6%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
