[sf-perl] Perl search engine

mehryar mehryar at mehryar.com
Wed Jul 21 14:11:07 PDT 2010


circa 1995-2000, the DejaNews search engine was all Perl and mod_perl 
(except for the core indexing code) and it was pretty fast. It later got 
acquired by Google and became what is now Google Groups.

cheers,
-Mehryar


On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, yary wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Joe Brenner <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Also, if I'm right that google has been ignoring some good
>> technologies (perl, postgresql), then it might be possible to
>> get a little edge over them by using them...
>
> For what it's worth, my understanding is that Google uses Perl in its
> release management, but its more of a Python & Java shop overall (eg
> what do they allow to run on the Google App Engine).
>
> Also back when Lycos was the only game in town, an acquaintance there
> told me their Perl was a performance hit, and they were rewriting
> anything that executed as a result of a visitor's search in C. That
> was circa 1994 and I never followed up.
>
> -y
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