If you want something easy to use, have a look at CGI::Application::Search. It uses the Swish-e search engine to do the indexing and has a nice set of features. Here is a list straight from the docs:

• Sub-Classable. Unlike the Perl examples that come with swish-e, this is not a script, and can be customized without modifiying the original so that several sites may share the same underlying code.
• Uses CGI::Application::Plugin::AnyTemplate to allow flexibility in template engine choice (HTML::Template, Template-Toolkit or Petal).
• Built-in templates to use out of box or as examples for your own templates
• HiLighted search results
• HiLighted pages linked from search results
• AJAX results sent to page without need of a page reload
• AJAX powered 'auto-suggest' to give the user list of choices available for search

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