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I often wonder how much this can be attributed to the pretty awful SEO of most documentation. I write mostly Python at work and it's infuriating how often Geeks
by prilo 2y ago
I often wonder how much this can be attributed to the pretty awful SEO of most documentation. I write mostly Python at work and it's infuriating how often GeeksForGeeks, W3Schools, Programiz, or RealPython pop up when I'm just trying to reference like, the arg order of a builtin, or the particular behavior. Django is worse, I often feel like I can't even find the doc when I know it's there and read it before.
- Vegenoid 2y agoAttempting to find the relevant docs page via search engines is generally not a good way to go, you should go to the documentation and search from there. Bookmark the landing page of the documentation.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoDocumentation is largely static content. It isn't their job to play SEO games to convince search engines to surface it in the query results. Documentation is not a revenue generator for Google so it gets buried below the sites with Doubleclick ads.
- jetbalsa 2y agoThis is why I switched to Kagi.com it gives me results that are much more sane for things I'm looking for when it comes to a programming stance
- kchr 2y agoFor native documentation, why not just search the official docs at https://docs.python.org/ https://docs.python.org/ ? I find it to be very discoverable if you are looking for docs about a specific function or module.
- sbotzek 2y agoPeople have already given many ideas, but if you use DuckDuckGo they have bangs for searching various python docs. Here's a page that lets you search which ones are available: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
- skykooler 2y agoAlso, many pieces of software whose "documentation" is just some examples of its use.
- aden1ne 2y agoYeah, the official docs for python rarely if ever show up on the first two pages of search unless I do `from: python.org`.