| Dead web links to help.eclipse.org [message #553565] |
Tue, 17 August 2010 23:58  |
Eclipse User |
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A lot of existing links to content on help.eclipse.org are
now dead, for example because they point to API docs
from Eclipse 3.2. This includes much of the content
discovered by a google search, as well as some content
on eclipse.org itself.
For example, google "ITextContentDescriber".
Currently, dead links redirecto to a generic top-level
page, http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/. While
this page includes a search box, it uses google itself,
so its own results have the same problem.
Can you please arrange for google to reindex
help.eclipse.org, and/or improve the 404 handling so
that stale links redirect directly to appropriate
current content?
thanks,
Jon
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| Re: Dead web links to help.eclipse.org [message #553568 is a reply to message #553565] |
Wed, 18 August 2010 00:22  |
| Eclipse User |
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Jon,
That's definitely an annoying problem! It would certainly be nice for
the top match to be for the most recent content. It would be better to
open a bugzilla report.
Jon Rowlands wrote:
> A lot of existing links to content on help.eclipse.org are
> now dead, for example because they point to API docs
> from Eclipse 3.2. This includes much of the content
> discovered by a google search, as well as some content
> on eclipse.org itself.
>
> For example, google "ITextContentDescriber".
>
> Currently, dead links redirecto to a generic top-level
> page, http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/ While
> this page includes a search box, it uses google itself,
> so its own results have the same problem.
>
> Can you please arrange for google to reindex
> help.eclipse.org, and/or improve the 404 handling so
> that stale links redirect directly to appropriate
> current content?
>
> thanks,
> Jon
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