[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Ammar Askar added the comment: This has been fixed as part of https://github.com/python/docsbuild-scripts/pull/99 Thank you to Julien, our Google results are much cleaner now :) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Sorry, the 'previous issue' is a vague memory which I cannot find. For some reason, searching this tracker for 'Google' return 1500+ hits. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Ammar Askar added the comment: Instead of noindex maybe the 3.x documentation can be marked as the canonical one: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066 This should still allow the old docs to be crawled but emphasize the latest docs on the website: > Google Search result

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Terry Davis added the comment: It seems like using "noindex" to tell search engines not to look at Python 2 docs at all would have the side-effect of breaking Python 2 documentation searches. I have gotten into the habit of searching for "python 3" explicitly, which I think is a reasonable

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: See also the approach to use robots.txt https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1030 -- nosy: +xtreak ___ Python tracker

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I completely agree with the goal. But I think that this is duplicate of at one previous issue either here or on the website tracker. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

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[issue40012] Avoid Python 2 documentation to appear in Web search results

New submission from Peter Bittner : Currently, when you do a Web search (e.g. using Google, Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo, et al.) for a Python module or function call you'll find a link to the related Python 2 documentation first. How to reproduce: 1. Search for simply "os.environ" in your