I will add that it is also easy to get confusing search results for mpmath vs SymPy functions, especially given that most of them have the same names.
On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 10:11:12 AM UTC-7, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > I just took a look at the Google search console data for Google search > results related to sympy.org domains for October, 2019. Here is the > data for > > search terms: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SVFe2Fw42okYy_Q6uTQs64ful--hTsigppWWXDA9bY0/edit?usp=sharing > > > and > > page results: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16LKHE9sPRJ5z9GYcYK74Qhn0ABVsBHpivv0pBh1mj68/edit?usp=sharing > > > There is also some other data but I didn't find it to be very interesting. > > Some of the interesting things: > > - The documentation page for solvers is the top result. It gets as > much traffic as sympy.org itself. So we should focus on improving this > page. I think it would be good to have some text at the top of the > page that gives a general overview of SymPy solvers. I think a big > reason it is so popular is that people associate the verb "solve" with > a very general thing that doesn't necessarily correspond to > sympy.solve(). > > - A lot of search results are for old versions of the documentation, > going all the way back to 0.6.7, which is the earliest version that is > there. 0.6.7 was released in 9 1/2 years ago in 2010. I still strongly > believe that we should remove these pages, as they confuse users. I've > had pushback in the past about this, though. > > - A lot of searches are for general "symbolic python". That means > people either can't remember the name "sympy" or they don't know about > it but want to see if something like it exists. > > If anyone wants more access to the search console let me know. > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/514a32ee-965a-4d11-b080-12cf226ae617%40googlegroups.com.
