[prilo]

I often wonder how much this can be attributed to the pretty awful SEO of most documentation. I write mostly Python at work and it's infuriating how often GeeksForGeeks, W3Schools, Programiz, or RealPython pop up when I'm just trying to reference like, the arg order of a builtin, or the particular behavior. Django is worse, I often feel like I can't even find the doc when I know it's there and read it before.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Documentation is largely static content. It isn't their job to play SEO games to convince search engines to surface it in the query results. Documentation is not a revenue generator for Google so it gets buried below the sites with Doubleclick ads.

[kchr]

For native documentation, why not just search the official docs at https://docs.python.org/ ?

I find it to be very discoverable if you are looking for docs about a specific function or module.

[jetbalsa]

This is why I switched to Kagi.com it gives me results that are much more sane for things I'm looking for when it comes to a programming stance

[Vegenoid]

Attempting to find the relevant docs page via search engines is generally not a good way to go, you should go to the documentation and search from there. Bookmark the landing page of the documentation.

[sbotzek]

People have already given many ideas, but if you use DuckDuckGo they have bangs for searching various python docs. Here's a page that lets you search which ones are available: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

[skykooler]

Also, many pieces of software whose "documentation" is just some examples of its use.

[aden1ne]

Yeah, the official docs for python rarely if ever show up on the first two pages of search unless I do `from: python.org`.