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Google search heavily focuses on the last page that users visit for a query. And python documentation is hard for most novice programmers to understand. My gue
by AlexanderTheGr8 3y ago
Google search heavily focuses on the last page that users visit for a query. And python documentation is hard for most novice programmers to understand.
My guess would be that engineers first go to documentation, don't understand it, go to low-quality-content-farms which answer their questions in natural language. It's low quality but it's enough for novice use cases such as python endsWith.
And this leads to a big reduction in Google's ranking of python docs.
TLDR : most novice programmers don't/can't read docs.
- markmacardle 3y agoI think your TLDR is accurate, but I think the mechanism is likely even simpler than Google looking at the last page visit. The docs are written by and for experienced programmers. They're very dense with information but light on examples and comments that explain things for dummies. Its popularity means the vast majority of Python users are novices who would find the docs hard to read. Geeksforgeeks et al are providing content for them and so is actually a better resource to show the majority of searchers (especially given that it's a basic string formatting question, something very likely to be searched by for novices).