What's up with google never linking to the latest version on docs.rs?

512 points trevg_123

I need a sanity check to make sure it's not just me: has anyone else noticed that it seems like google results never link to the latest version of a crate's docs on docs.rs?

It has tripped me up at least a couple times, and it even happens with core and std. I'm wondering if maybe for whatever reason, docs.rs specifies to cache the versioned page (e.g. https://docs.rs/tempfile/3.0.1/tempfile/struct.TempDir.html) instead of the "latest" page (https://docs.rs/tempfile/latest/tempfile/struct.TempDir.html).

edit Also, a pleaseSA - crate maintainers, if you choose to archive a create, please be kind and update the docs and README indicating that. Too many times have I found the crate of my dreams, only to realize too late that the github page was archived in 2018 :(