[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse web pages and Google

[Denis Roy <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ric Wright wrote:
> Interesting (to me, at least) observation.  If one searches for information
> about Eclipse features in Google, you will usually get the Eclipse API
> specification hosted by eclipse.org as the first result.  Problem is, this
> is almost always the 3.2 version.  Since some of the APIs have changed, this
> can lead to confusion.  One has to enter (for example) "FormPage 3.4" to get
> Google to return the current APIs.  Of course one, can instead bring up Help
> from within Eclipse but the workflow to get to the right API is longer than
> simply searching Google. And one can't really bookmark the result very well
> due to the way Eclipse does pseudo-frames.  Anyway, nothing to do be done,
> just a Sunday-afternoon sort of observation.
>
> Ric

It's an interesting observation, and certainly one I have made before. 
I remember a time when the 1.0 documentation was still online, even in 
the post-3.0 era.  Most search results would favour the 1.0 content 
despite it being obsolete.  I guess Google favours older content.

We run the standard Eclipse help system, so adding meta tags to guide 
the search indexers is not necessarily trivial.