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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=jshirley@gmail.com
href="mailto:jshirley@gmail.com">J. Shirley</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">> Trusting Google to give you the latest
version is probably a pretty bad idea :)<BR>> To derail this conversation a
little bit, perhaps the canonical meta tag pointing to the most recent release
would do well on older versions still sitting on > CPAN? I'm not sure
how else to coerce Google into always linking to the most recent version of
whatever it finds.<BR>> That, and the "Latest Release" on CPAN is
busted. It points to 5.7003 which then goes to a Not Found page.
Ick.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">There could be a permalink to the latest version
on CPAN, and a program that handles the 404 Not Found errors which could get
the module name (without version) and redirect to that permalink.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">This way, if the older versions are removed from
CPAN, the Google always would return the latest version of the found
module.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Octavian</DIV>
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