[sf-perl] Google Trends for Perl

Greg Lindahl greg at blekko.com
Fri Mar 22 22:25:30 PDT 2013


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 08:36:34PM -0700, Quinn Weaver wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Kevin Frost <biztos at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > Makes me wanna hack together a search startup, using PG of course... And Perl...
> 
> DuckDuckGo uses both, and is rather good. It doesn't track or bubble users, and it has support for custom domains (s.g., search Perl-related things) and a Tor exit enclave.

And there's always blekko, which wrote its own NoSQL database in perl,
has its own crawl and index, a good privacy policy, and a "wow"-
inducing tablet search app named izik.

Funny that the two most interesting alternative search engines both
use perl!

-- greg





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