Re: octave help links from google

[Andrew Janke]

On 9/7/19 1:48 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> Am I the only one who notices that the default google search for octave
> help docs almost always point you to the v4.2.1 docs, versus the latest
> version?
> e.g., searching for "octave formatted output" gets you:
> 
> Formatted Output - GNU Octave
> https://octave.org › doc › Formatted-Output
> 
> which links to 
> https://octave.org/doc/v4.2.1/Formatted-Output.html
> 
> instead of 
> https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Formatted-Output.html
> 
> I believe the latter is always the latest version, no?  
> 
> searching for "octave formatted output 5.1" gets you:
> 
> Formatted Output (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))
> https://octave.org › doc › interpreter › Formatted-Output
> 
> which does takes you to the current version. 
> 
> Anyone with SEO skills know what game to play to fix that?

You're not the only one. I see this same behavior both here and with
some other FLOSS projects.

No idea how to fix it.

Cheers,
Andrew