search.cpan.org gripes

bart on 2003-10-01T01:42:41

In less than 20 minutes apart, I did 2 queries on search.cpan.org, both with less then satisfactory results. You can try them for yourself: "BerkelyDB" and "Text::Levenstein". And I was off by so little! The correct spelling is "BerkeleyDB" and "Text::Levenshtein", respectively. Argh! I don't know exactly what kind of approximate search lies underneath, but it's not that smart on English, as is apparent here.


the algo is...

hfb on 2003-10-01T05:26:52

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