Re: Searching for GNOME User Guide

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:34, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> I searched google for the following terms: GNOME user guide
> 
> I got the following results:
> 
> Hits 1,2,3 point to a version of the UG that is quite old (1999).
> Hit 4 points to gnome.org/learn, which is good, but not ideal.
> Hits 5 and 6 point to the UG for GNOME 1.4.
> Hit 7 points to mail.gnome.org
> Hits 8 and 9 point to user guides for the General NOAA Oil Modeling
> Environment (GNOME)!
> Hit 10 points to a user guide for GNOME for RH Linux 6.1.
> 
> Of Hits 11-30, none of them points to a manual later than 1.4. 
> 
> If I specify the version of GNOME, then the correct user guide is found.
> However, I can't imagine too many users will expect this.
> 
> So can we do anything to ensure that more recent versions of the user
> guide are found by a search like this?
> 
> Eugene

Probably

-> Kill all copies of the really old one?
-> Link to the new user guide more prominently

Tweaking google search results is really quite hard, though. The best
thing IMHO is to hype the user guide more (maybe in a section of major
release announcements), so more people link to it.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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