Google search results for Python docs have misleading titles
Hello, Sorry for filing this bug by email, but I think it is an issue with the Python documentation production webserver configuration and not anything in the repo. I may be wrong, but hopefully someone on this list can help me sort it out. For the last several months, at least, there has been a problem where using Google to search for Python documentation, for instance "python unittest", brings up a result that shows e.g. "Unittest - Python 3.3.3 documentation" as the title of the page. However, clicking through brings the user to the Python 2.7.x documentation. Users unfamiliar with the different layouts of the two documentation versions may not realize that this has happened and be mislead to thinking they are actually on the 3.3 documentation page. https://www.google.com/search?q=python+unittest This applies to other modules and even applies if the user searches for e.g. "python 2.7 unittest". A search query for "python 3.3 unittest" works as expected. Strangely, this does not affect Duck Duck Go or Bing, both of which correctly identify the page as Python 2.7 documentation. I was unable to determine why this has happened via my cursory inspection of the generated source for the documentation page, so I'm afraid I don't have any more specific information. Thank you, Andrew Gorcester
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Andrew Gorcester