... the language is actually called "Perl 6" (with a space).

Which makes searching a darn sight more difficult than it would be without the space.

In Google, you can put your query term in quotation marks:

http://www.google.com/search?q="Perl+6"
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The closing quote is actually optional.

Here’s a better tip: use a hyphen, as in [perl-6]. Google interprets hyphens in terms as optional and interchangable with a blank, so this gives you the results of both [perl6] and ["perl 6"]. (But Google already treats whitespace between a word and a number as partially insigificant, so you get largely the same set of results whichever the query you used. The only noticable difference is ranking – things that show up low in the results for both other queries drop even lower in the results for [perl-6].)

Makeshifts last the longest.

gaal is correct that a space is required, but damn, I wish it wasn't. Even the all-seeing one can't overcome this search problem.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

Have you actually tried it before complaining? Google does just fine even if you leave out the quotes, and as I wrote in another node, you can easily ask it for better precision.

Makeshifts last the longest.

Have you actually tried it before complaining? Google does just fine ...

Yes. And who mentioned google? Contrast:

?node_id=3989;BIT=perl%206

?node_id=3989;BIT=perl6

Bad decisions are bad decisions regardless of what limited forms of workaround are available to partially alleviate them.

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