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Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by megous on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:41AM (#26619765)
I use duckduckgo and it always finds me PostgreSQL documentation for version 9.3 or 8.x or something obsolete like that during general search.
Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by disgruntledphd2 on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:51AM (#26620259)
Google gave me Python 2 results for every doc query for a looooooonnnnnngggg time, I just clicked to the newest version when I got there.
Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by FateOfNations on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:58AM (#26631582)
That was mostly PSF's fault since they had the default documentation URLs setup to point at the Python 2 documentation for way longer than they should have...
Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:55AM (#26633127)
Oh really? Interesting. I always thought it was because Google never switched to Python 3.
Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by OJFord on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:19AM (#26620479)
Ha, me too, but then I've also been caught out on 'latest' (which I typically reflexively click on after opening) having some crucial difference from what we're using (12 vs. 13) too, so hard to win there.

I don't know off-hand if it's possible with the search (e.g. it might use a last-selected version cookie) but we should probably be using version-specific 'bangs'. `!pg12` or whatever, in my case.

Re:Robots.txt for the NYT has a specific exclusion for an 19... by Kwpolska on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:44AM (#26620713)
So does Google, and it’s even worse there. In Google, the first page for "postgres window functions" is version 9.1, version 9.3, and 8 random tutorials. DDG has 9.1, 9.3, tutorial (the same as Google…), but then you at least get 12, 11, and then some more tutorials.