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x/website: google search results have incorrect title for documentation pages #47805

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prashantv opened this issue Aug 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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x/website: google search results have incorrect title for documentation pages #47805

prashantv opened this issue Aug 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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@prashantv
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What did you do?

Search google for "golang net http",
https://www.google.com/search?q=net+http+golang

What did you expect to see?

The first result to be the documentation for net/http and the title of the result to be the title of the page, http · net/http · pkg.go.dev

What did you see instead?

The first result was the correct URL, but the title is incorrect: Documents - The Go Programming Language

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This problem seems to affect subpackages, and different searches have different results. E.g., searching for ioutil,
https://www.google.com/search?q=ioutil+golang
has a title of io.ioutil.ReadAll - The Go Programming Language (picks a specific function).

I think this change is related to the stdlib being redirected to pkg.go.dev (referenced in https://go.dev/blog/tidy-web)
@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Unreleased milestone Aug 19, 2021
@mknyszek mknyszek changed the title x/website: Search results via google have incorrect title for documentation pages x/website: google search results have incorrect title for documentation pages Aug 19, 2021
@mknyszek mknyszek added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Aug 19, 2021
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CC @dmitshur via https://dev.golang.org/owners

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I think this can be closed now? Google search appears to have updated the indexed titles

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Agreed, nothing more to do here.

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