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What I dislike about Google's current algorithm is that when I search for a common term such as "javadoc simpledateformat", the API documentation for Java 1.4.2
by spuz 16y ago
What I dislike about Google's current algorithm is that when I search for a common term such as "javadoc simpledateformat", the API documentation for Java 1.4.2 (as opposed to 1.6) comes up as apparently, that is what most documents on the web link to. I hope this new index will allow more recent and more up-to-date documents to get to the top of the results list.
- noss 16y agoI tend to use "java6 simpledateformat" as my query for that.
- Jermey128 16y agoIn Firefox I have the following quick-search to fix that (and make searching the API a little faster): http://www.google.com/search?q=java+6+%s&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=java+6+%s&ie=utf-8&oe... This should also work in Chrome.
- spuz 16y agoYep, I've done exactly that for the Java 6 docs in Chrome and FF. The general point of how do you keep the latest version of a set of documents the most relevant still applies however. I hope Google can fix this :)
- suraj 16y agoSimilarly searching for Apache directives (e.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=rewriterule http://www.google.com/search?q=rewriterule ) returns result for apache 1.3 docs. You have to add 2.2 while searching for apache info.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI had the same annoyance searching for PostgreSQL stuff -- the latest docs are almost never accessible from the Google page, just docs 2 years old or more.