Google still points to the old doxygen documentation

[traversaro]

Some time ago I moved the iDynTree documentation from being generated with codyco-superbuild doxygen (at http://wiki.icub.org/codyco/dox/html/index.html) to its own doxygen website at http://wiki.icub.org/codyco/dox/html/idyntree/html/ , for cleaning up its the docs.

Unfortunately Google still points to the old documentation for a lot of pages. If you search "iDynTree Transform" on Google, for example, the first result that I get is :

http://wiki.icub.org/codyco/dox/html/idyntree/html/classiDynTree_1_1Transform.html

instead of the correct http://wiki.icub.org/codyco/dox/html/idyntree/html/classiDynTree_1_1Transform.html (I avoided to link the old version to avoid boosting its relevancy in Google results).

This is a big problem, because the google search is quite a natural entry point for users (I get the 404 error several times a day, and is annoying even if I know the underlying issue).

We need to solve this. We cannot put an automatic redirect or a HTTP 301 on http://wiki.icub.org/codyco/dox/html/, because that prefix is still used by the rest of the CoDyCo documentation. Possible solutions involve:

• Remove all existing links to the old documentation from the internet (probably there are some around), to reduce its pagerank.
• Boost the pagerank of the new doxygen documentation adding links to it around in icub/codyco websites.
• Provide a sitemap for both codyco and idyntree doxygen documentation, so that Google can know exactly which pages are available in each doxygen website.

[kjyv]

It seems both link examples you give, old and new are the same. The google results load fine for me now and are at the new location.

[traversaro]

Yes, it seems that Google has update its indeces and for most users the new doxygen repo result is higher then the old repo. I think we can consider this issue closed by Google.