[Python-Dev] http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel still available (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Feb 15 21:07:01 CET 2006

As I said in an earlier message, there's no need to have a separate domain to restrict queries to just the doc/current part of python.org. Just type "site:python.org/doc/current your query here"

If there isn't any other rationale, maybe we can redirects docs.python.org back to www.python.org?

Jeremy

On 2/15/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 2/15/06, Tim Parkin <tim at pollenation.net> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > (Now that I work for Google I realize more than ever before the > > importance of keeping URLs stable; PageRank(tm) numbers don't get > > transferred as quickly as contents. I have this worry too in the > > context of the python.org redesign; 301 permanent redirect is not > > going to help PageRank of the new page.)

> Could you expand on why 301 redirects won't help with the transfer of > page rank (if you're allowed)? We've done exactly this on many sites and > the pagerank (or more relevantly the search rankings on specific terms) > has transferred almost overnight. The bigger pagerank updates (both > algorithm changes and overhauls in approach) seem to only happen every > few months and these also seem to take notice of 301 redirects (they > generally clear up any supplemental results). OK, perhaps I stand corrected. I don't actually know that much about PageRank! I still don't like docs.python.org, and adding more like it seems a mistake; but it's possible that this is because of a poor execution of the idea (there's no "search docs" button near the search button on the old python.org). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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