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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/12 12:36 PM, Joe Armstrong
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<pre wrap="">it is a source of never-ending amazement
to me that external users can figure out how do do things *without* asking the
authors. </pre>
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Glad to hear that, I immediately feel less stupid.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/12 12:53 AM, Richard O'Keefe
wrote:<br>
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What we really need is ... money.<br>
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While we may be able to all agree on that one, there is one related
thing that may come cheap.<br>
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As noted before, Erlang docs seem harder to Google than other docs
or programming related information.<br>
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In my experience, this keeps being a massive productivity loss.<br>
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While I don't understand why that is, this should be sth. that
without money, only with decent SEO knowledge, could be fixed very
easily, for a big effect.<br>
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Especially given the fact that the HTML is generated from
sufficiently abstract sources. <br>
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My suspicion is that it has to do with the frame layout. But it
should be possible to compensate for that and better guide the
search engines through it.<br>
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I have Googled unsuccessfully, repeatedly, even for stuff that I
/knew/ I had read in the Erlang docs. But could not find, except by
finally remembering which links I followed from what to where to end
up at the forgotten place. I even reverted to grepping the
downloaded doc htmls, which I can't recall I ever did for other
languages.<br>
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Unfortunately, it seems the great effort of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://erldocs.com/">http://erldocs.com/</a> did
not help this either.<br>
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Does anyone with the right skill set have a comment on that?
Concretely: why, if we can agree on that, is it so hard to use
Google to find stuff one is looking for in the Erlang docs; and what
can be done to solve that?)<br>
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<pre wrap=""> worth printing to wipe my arse with.
I do apologise</pre>
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There is always that key, top right-hand on the keyboard for
immediate regrets.<br>
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Henning<br>
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