Google search vs. Use Perl

brian_d_foy on 2004-06-10T15:05:32

This is no surprise to anyone, but it is much easier to search Use Perl from Google than from its own search facility.

In Google, I just limit the host name in the search:

site:use.perl.org system events mac::glue

By the time I even find the search button here, I'm already looking at the results from Google.

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Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

vek on 2004-06-10T16:06:21

By the time I even find the search button here...

You mean the one that's at the top right of the page?

Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

jdavidb on 2004-06-10T16:32:39

Yeah, but the results aren't as good.

Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

vek on 2004-06-10T23:54:39

I agree. I was merely commenting on the fact that Brian thought the search on use.perl was hard to find.

Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

Dom2 on 2004-06-10T16:39:13

Wow, you mean you don't use "light" mode? I can't stand the default slash look, turning on light mode makes both use.perl and slashdot much more readable. Have a look in your prefs...

-Dom

Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

vek on 2004-06-10T23:58:06

Wow, you mean you don't use "light" mode?

No, it looks 'orrible.

I can't stand the default slash look...

And yet you like "light" mode? Whatever blows your skirt up I guess :-)

Re:Search, Not Really *That* Hard To Find

brian_d_foy on 2004-06-11T03:11:46

It's not necessarily at the top right. In the light version it is at the very bottom.

I hear ya

delegatrix on 2004-06-10T16:39:52

We found Google search results so much improved over our search engine so we just went with Google as our search engine.

Re:I hear ya

da on 2004-06-10T17:46:15

Hm, that's a pretty good endorsement: "search results good enough to satisfy the US census bureau".

Re:I hear ya

delegatrix on 2004-06-10T19:40:33

We never endorse anything. We're just satisfied users.

bit of a shame really

TeeJay on 2004-06-11T08:21:25

Perl is quite capable of knocking the socks off googles generic crawler based indexing.

Its not hard to write a basic search engine that delivers a lot more punch with a little knowledge of your application.

Both use.perl and search.cpan as well as perl.com all suffer from fairly pedestrian search engines, comparable with the lame efforts of the average .asp site.

Re:bit of a shame really

pudge on 2004-06-23T02:39:09

It's mostly because of two things: limitations in MySQL's search abilities, and limitations in our time. It's on our wishlist, now that we can take advantage of MySQL 4.x.

Re:bit of a shame really

TeeJay on 2004-06-23T08:52:55

Kind of Mysql's fulltext is limited, it isn't aware of your application and doesn't allow you to index accross objects or tables.

It doesn't take that long to write your own and have much better results. I would love to work on the searching for search.cpan.org.

If I had any idea how the data was stored and some sample data I would be happy to have a go.