I've come across this many times and I've come to think it's an issue with that specific page in particular. The problem is partly on Python's end: they've got

I've come across this many times and I've come to think it's an issue with that specific page in particular. The problem is partly on Python's end: they've got a single page where they've jammed in all of the built in types (str, dict, list, complex, ...). It's a huge list of types and a correspondingly huge page! I suspect if there were separate pages for each type then it would be ranked higher... and it would actually be more useful. I don't get why they've done it like that. The higher ranked pages admittedly have a whole page just for a single method, which is too far in the other extreme and is obviously more for SEO than use. But with the Python docs the way they are, we'll never know whether a more sensible official page would beat them or not. As some evidence that it's not just Google allowing spammers to shine through - sometimes for a search about a built-in type I actually do get official docs at the top, but it turns out to be the tutorial page about the class (which is not a giant mish-mash).