#760: exclude all but latest documentation from search results --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: warren | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- When searching for haskell documentation on google, quite frequently the top search results are versions of the library documentation from the archives. For instance, when searching for Data.Vector, the top hit is version 0.5, whereas the latest is 0.7. Also, if the user selects the 0.7 version, it isn't obvious from the documentation that this version corresponds to the latest since it also appears in the archive (the url is http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/vector/0.7/doc/html/Data- Vector.html). So I'm wondering if it might not make sense to exclude all but the latest haddock documentation from search results by augmenting the robots.txt file. It might also make sense to provide alternate urls to the latest versions of documents. E.g. Starting from the http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector page (which is the latest version), and clicking on Data.Vector, one is taken to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/vector/0.7/doc/html/Data- Vector.html... but it might be better if this were http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/current/vector/doc/html/Data- Vector.html. This would allow for all files under /archive to be excluded. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/760 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects