Why do web searches for AWS commands return deprecated versions?

Question

It seems like 100% of the results for the CLI commands that I look up return the page for v1.x. Each of these pages has a block notice at the top of the page announcing the old version deprecation with a direct link to the equivalent current version. So at least there's that.Why are the bots not being signaled for redirection to current version, or why are the bots not doing the right thing? Yet another example of how broken search has become?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

It's a general problem searching for programming documentation.
A search for "StringBuffer javadocs" turns up a random version. "JDK 17 javadocs" hits the mark.
That link that you're calling a "redirect" is just a human readable link, it doesn't have any official semantics so Google would have to really care and code up something specific if it wanted to do the right thing.
I've thought that programmers would be a good market for a specialized search engine: show it your POM file and it automatically gets the right versions of everything.
Unfortunately
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost...

verdverm · Answer

I suspect that AWS has done some SEO work. It is very hard to find an AWS content that is not from the docs. This probably makes it harder to rank up the newest versions of the docs too?