How about "MonkSearch", if it's available? Have you ever set up a code.google.com project? I haven't.

I figure we should set things up like a standard CPAN distro. Most of the code in module files, utility scripts in bin/, yada yada. Sound good? We can call the Perl modules whatever we want at first -- it doesn't matter until there's a public API, which there may never be.

Are you willing to play the role of lead developer on the project? I believe you're subscribed to the KinoSearch list, so you've seen how collaborations have gone there -- there's often some gory back end stuff that falls to me. For this project, I figure I'll end up spending significant time tweaking the ranking algo in response to user feedback once we have everything in place. In anticipation of that, it would be great if you could take responsibility for most of the high level architecture. I think we'll have a more fruitful collaboration if you own the code and I play a secondary role.