No sure this is the right place to post this. Mod please move the post to the right category.
But SAS seriously needs to upgrade the documentation website.
Everytime I googled something about SAS, I was almost always sent to a link for SAS 9.2. And there is no link to switch SAS versions on the documentation webpage. Miscrosoft is much smarter in this regard, for example: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel(v=vs.110).aspx . Google takes you to the current version of the document, and you can switch version on the webpage directly. For SAS, you have to add 9.4 to the search phrases to get to the right place in the documentation website. Also, look at the URL, obviously microsoft document URL is better designed. For SAS, it is something like this: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acpcref/67382/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0msy4hy1so0ren1acm90iijxn8j.htm
The url matters not only for SEO, but also for users to take notes. I can't even put the SAS document URL in presentation, because it just looks awful.
In general, the content of SAS documentation is great, but there is also space for improvement.
If I google "proc import". The first result is for SAS 9.2, and the second is for SAS 9.4. Let's see what's on the SAS 9.4 document. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/proc/68954/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n18jyszn33umngn14czw2qfw7thc.htm If I CTRL+F to look for the word "excel", you know what, it's no there! Some would argue it belongs to SAS/ACCESS, but seriously, don't you think at least you should mention Excel on the PROC IMPORT document, and link to the right place?
OK, let's google "proc import excel". The third result gets to the right place to SAS 9.2 documentation. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acpcref/63184/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003102096.htm . Unfortunately, this page is not specific for excel. The real information for excel is on this page: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acpcref/63184/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003103761.htm , which is not linked by the proc import webpage. It is hidden in the left sidebar. If you click "File Format-Specific Reference", you will find it.
Some would argue that it is google's problem, but it is not. If you do the search on Bing, you will get similar results. Search "proc import excel" will not get you to the "Microsoft Excel Workbook Files" document, even "proc import excel namerow" won't. I think there's something to be improved in the design of the SAS documentation website.
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