Super Search does some things quite well but there are quite a few things that many people reasonably expect from a web search that Super Search mostly sucks at.

Several things could be improved with some fairly simple features (like being able to build up the list of matches). But the problem space is rather strangely and somewhat severely constrained and so many things will never be done well by Super Search.

But making PerlMonks robot-friendly will address many of those areas (because google is quite good at one common type of web search, especially if we define a few key "words"...)

And Super Search is good at searching for punctuation, which is a rare treat for me; most searches suck at that, but then I wrote it so there should be something about it I like.

This is all rather vague but most of it is covered in other nodes and I'm not going to spend more than a couple of minutes on this so you'll have to use it if you're curious.

So there is much I like about it, it usually works quite well for me, I'm glad it works well for you, it treats the servers nicely, and I realize many of its significant faults and have plans for improvements for some and alternatives for others. But right now, there are several ways in which it sucks, and not just a little. (:

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: Open sourcing perlmonks (super search) by tye
in thread Open sourcing perlmonks by BUU

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