Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 September 2017 at 12:24, Sebastian Krause wrote: > Sebastian Krause wrote: >> This is why if you search for "python 3 $module" in Google, you'll >> never see a direct link to the 3.5 or 3.6 versions of the >> documentation (because Google

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Sebastian Krause
Sebastian Krause wrote: > This is why if you search for "python 3 $module" in Google, you'll > never see a direct link to the 3.5 or 3.6 versions of the > documentation (because Google merges them with the generic > docs.python.org/3/), but you still results for versions

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Sebastian Krause
Guido van Rossum wrote: > We just need someone with SEO experience to fix this for us. I'm not an SEO expert, but I think a possible approach would be using (or partly abusing) the element on the documentation pages: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Guido van Rossum
We just need someone with SEO experience to fix this for us. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 05:51:31AM +, Bar Harel wrote: > > A bit radical but do you believe we can contact Google to alter the > search > > results? > >

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 05:51:31AM +, Bar Harel wrote: > A bit radical but do you believe we can contact Google to alter the search > results? You should try DuckDuckGo, it recognises "python" searches and quotes from, and links to, the Python 3 documentation at the top of the page before

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Wes Turner
A sitemap.xml may be helpful for indicating search relevance to search crawlers? https://www.google.com/search?q=sphinx+sitemap On Thursday, September 7, 2017, Bar Harel wrote: > A bit radical but do you believe we can contact Google to alter the search > results? > It's

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-07 Thread Philipp A.
A progmatic workaround for yourself: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/py3direct/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/py3redirect/codfjigcljdnlklcaopdciclmmdandig Bar Harel schrieb am Do., 7. Sep. 2017 um 07:52 Uhr: > A bit radical but do you believe we can

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-06 Thread Bar Harel
A bit radical but do you believe we can contact Google to alter the search results? It's for the benefit of the user after all, and many just switch to python 3 in the version picker anyway. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017, 4:18 AM Guido van Rossum wrote: > That's a good idea. Could you

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-06 Thread Guido van Rossum
That's a good idea. Could you suggest it to https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/ ? (There is actually a version switcher on every page, but it's rather polite. :-) On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > Right now, many Google searches for Python modules

Re: [Python-ideas] Adding "View Python 3 Documentation" to all Python 2 documentation URLs

2017-09-06 Thread Victor Stinner
Another example is PyPI showing a bold "Latest version: x.x.x". Example: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/2.17.0 Victor 2017-09-07 0:52 GMT+02:00 Ryan Gonzalez : > Right now, many Google searches for Python modules return the Python 2 > documentation. IMO since 2 will be