On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Ryan Newton
GHC docs seem to have the problem that newer versions only gradually overtake older ones in page rank, resulting in the effect that if one uses Google to find library documentation, they may accidentally look at an old version. For example, if I google "Data.Data Haskell" the first link brings me to:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/libraries/base/Data-Data.html
Oops, version 6.10.2!
I'm no web expert, but I think the problem is that the "latest" directory isn't used consistently by others and/or the fact that latest/ redirects to a concrete version number. Thus if you go to:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Data.html
It redirects immediately to 6.12.2:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base/Data-Data.html
So is the 6.12.2 target accruing pagerank rather than the latest one? Even if someone links the /latest/ URL? If that's the problem, would it fix things just to make latest/ a full directory structure in its own right (a clone rather than redirect)?
If we had a permanent entry page to the documentation, such as docs.haskell.org, that linked to the different kind of documentation (and was attractive enough that people would link to it) that might help. Johan