I asked "why make life for regular Haskellers", and On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Thomas Davie replied:
Because regular haskellers are perfectly capable of bookmarking http://haskell.org/usefullstuff.html , while newbies will only get what google tells them -- the front page.
Sorry, but (1) I have a couple of hundred bookmarks; I may be a regular Haskeller, but it's better human interfacing for me to type www.haskell.org than to look things up in bookmarks. (2) Who says Google will only tell them the front page? PageRank means that Google will offer them first the page that is (to a first approximation) most linked to, and eventually that will be www.haskell.org/usefullstuff. (3) Right now, if you actually try it, Googling for "Haskell" gives you Haskell Introduction - HaskellWiki as the *second* link it offers. Are you really saying that there are lots of newbies who are smart enough to appreciate Haskell when they see it, but so excruciatingly dumb that they won't try "Haskell Introduction"? What might be a good thing would be if someone touched the introduction page from time to time. At the moment, it's about a year older than the main page, which makes it less inviting.