Search CPAN with Google
Tom Hukins
tom at eborcom.com
Mon Dec 18 05:58:32 PST 2006
This just showed up on the London.pm mailing list. I remember us
discussing problems with searching CPAN at some point, probably in the
pub, so I thought I'd forward it:
----- Forwarded message from Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> -----
To: Module Authors <module-authors at perl.org>,
"London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
From: Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>
Subject: Search CPAN with Google
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:01 +0000
I've just been playing with a Google Co-op search of CPAN:
http://www.hexten.net/2006/12/18/search-cpan-with-google
It certainly doesn't beat search.cpan.org all the time - but for some
queries the fact that the Google search goes deeper pays off.
CPAN's big enough that the quality of the search interface is
critical - for most people it's the primary interface. I've certainly
had cases where the search has missed modules that I've subsequently
discovered indirectly - mentioned on a mailing list or in someone
else's code.
I imagine it might be politically sensitive to add a Google powered
search to search.cpan.org - but I'd certainly have found it useful in
the past.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
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