Search CPAN with Google

[Andy Armstrong]

I've just been playing with a Google Co-op search of CPAN:

http://www.hexten.net/2006/12/18/search-cpan-with-google

It certainly doesn't beat search.cpan.org all the time - but for some  
queries the fact that the Google search goes deeper pays off.

CPAN's big enough that the quality of the search interface is  
critical - for most people it's the primary interface. I've certainly  
had cases where the search has missed modules that I've subsequently  
discovered indirectly - mentioned on a mailing list or in someone  
else's code.

I imagine it might be politically sensitive to add a Google powered  
search to search.cpan.org - but I'd certainly have found it useful in  
the past.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net