My problem isn't that google gives me a URL for an older version, it's that google doesn't give me a URL for any version but does give me URLs that have nothing to do with what I'm searching for.
For z/OS and z/VM, the URLs seem to be stable, and I can navigate from a release-specific page to the main page. But what I'm looking for are hardware manuals that I couldn't find on bitsavers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Links for ESS manuals External Message: Use Caution IBM should remove the version number from the URL's for the latest doc. Then maybe Google will get the hint and quit sending me to old versions, unless I'm specifically looking for those. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/ < current https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0 < old https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0 < older Then when the new version arrives: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/ < current https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0 < old https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0 < older https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0 < older On 3/17/2025 7:39 AM, billogden wrote: >> I have found google to be useless for locating old IBM manuals. > > While it is not exactly relevant to IBM-MAIN topics, I seem to see recent > google results as having considerably less "accuracy" than in earlier days > and considerably more "advertising" or "marketing" orientation. I find I am > using it less now than I did a year or two ago. (Even for z/OS-related > searches!) I realize this is a fuzzy topic that could be debated at least a > dozen different ways but, to me at least, it has somewhat reduced the > usefulness of the web. > > Bill Ogden > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
