[Python-ideas] The stdlib++ user experience (Was: Introduce `start=1` argument to `math.factorial`)

Wolfgang Maier wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Fri Sep 19 09:35:47 CEST 2014


On 18.09.2014 23:27, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> It actually occurs to me: I wonder whether anyone at Google might be
> interested in enhancing it's usefulness as a Python packaging search
> tool by looking specifically at PyPI's own search index data. (And if
> they could do that for us, they might be willing to do it for CPAN,
> RubyGems, npm, CPAN, PEAR, etc)
>
> (on the other hand, being a vector for influencing Google search results
> would mean being a higher priority target for spam, so we may not
> actually want that)
>

I'm not sure, but isn't Google doing this already? At least package 
updates uploaded to PyPI usually appear in Google searches quite fast 
(sometimes instantaneously) so I don't think this is only the result of 
regular crawls.



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