On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:06 AM, breno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:breno@rio.pm.org">breno@rio.pm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When looking for nice Perl modules, you should try CPAN instead of google ;-)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I somewhat disagree. At least one of the search methods on <a href="http://search.cpan.org">search.cpan.org</a> is amazingly bad. If I have a CPAN module search that uses more than a single keyword, I tend to have better luck with feeding google "site:<a href="http://search.cpan.org">search.cpan.org</a> ...".<br>
<br>For example, consider looking for a module that does permutations but can handle duplicates.<br><br><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asearch.cpan.org+permutations+duplicates">http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asearch.cpan.org+permutations+duplicates</a><br>
</div></div><br>has the very first hit being exactly what we are looking for and this is clear from the snippet of text shown for the hit. Compare<br><br><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=permutations+duplicates&mode=module">http://search.cpan.org/search?query=permutations+duplicates&mode=module</a><br>
<br>which doesn't even list the module that mentions both of those terms (it instead lists all module that mention /either/ term in their names)<br><br><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=permutations+duplicates&mode=all">http://search.cpan.org/search?query=permutations+duplicates&mode=all</a><br>
<br>comes closer but lacks the snippets that show the context of how the search terms are used in the matched documents and so it is not easy to tell if any of the matches are actually what you are looking for, and is missing a ton of matches that google found. My experience is also that goole does a better job of sorting such results.<br>
<br>Tye<br>