[vtkusers] Old documentation appears as first (and only!?) google search result

David Doria daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 12:58:36 EDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > For many classes, if you search google, a very old version of the class
> > documentation is found.
> >
> > For example, google "vtkmath" and the first result is
> > http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/4.0/html/classvtkMath.html. In fact, this
> is
> > the only official kitware result on the first page of results. Is there
> > anything that can be done so that either the current cvs or at least the
> > latest release documentation will be ranked higher?
> >
>
> I find that as well when I do a google search. However a workaround is
> to include the word nightly in the search.
>
> John
>

John,

I have a bookmark of the class list - I was thinking this would be a big
benefit for new users who may not yet :) In fact they may be quite confused
when they don't realize they are looking at an old version and functions are
missing, etc.

Thanks,

David
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