| unfo | f00li5h: I am fairly serious. I wonder: are they worse engines or is the user interface merely more cluttered? |
| jql | Yahoo search fixed its most glaring problems a while back. they just never gave a reason to switch. and their toolbar is the most evil product ever widely used |
| f00li5h | unfo: well, google is definately clean, UI wise i mean it's search for? go. there's no adds or otehr "content" on the page |
| jql | msn still has its glaring problems |
| jmoncayo | jjore: well i think i cant get the charmap utf8 anyone here? |
| cfedde | nope |
| Randal | at least you can use Yahoo::Search for whatever you want (Sorta) |
| unfo | jmoncayo: if you can convince us why OCR'ing web CAPTCHAs is good, maybe we'll be more likely to help :) |
| Randal | Google Search has become "on the webpage only, and we get to add ads" |
| unfo | don't they have a web API? |
| avar | isn't there a cpan module that screen-scrapes them? |
| action | jjore got busy doing some prolog. |
| jjore | got busy doing some prolog. |
| Randal | Google search *had* a web API, but no more not for search |
| jmoncayo | unfo: like i said it is for challange where you get a random picture with bg like 00C8FF and the numbers are lines with 00C9FF so it is not readable for us, but i need an ocr to get the random numbers and beat the chall |
| Randal | and screen-scraping them would be against TOS |
| avar | Randal: so? |
| unfo | jmoncayo: which website? |
| avar | that's the problem of whoever uses the module |
| Randal | I presume you're joking to get me riled up. :) I have friends that work at both Google and Yahoo though |
| jmoncayo | unfo: is the website really important? |
| Randal | so violating either TOS would be harming my friends, and therefore me. |
| unfo | jmoncayo: yes |
| avar | I'm not. Some website TOS isn't going to stop anyone from writing a module that uses the website |
| revdiablo | Randal: There's still apparently an ajax search API: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/ |
| Randal | Yeah, and that's for embedding on your webpage only |
| avar | GumbyBRAIN: meh |
| GumbyBRAIN | Meh, i'd just backtick ifconfig. |
| Randal | not for doing research behind the scenes because they also deliver ads that they want shown |
| avar | I'm aware of what they want to do, I'm just saying you don't have to care |
| Randal | avar - and if I didn't care, why would I expect people to care about my wishes? I don't want to live in that world. do unto others as you would have them do unto you I want people to respect my rules, so I will respect theirs. |
| noganex | RE patterns: i'd like to match something like m/^\w+$/ but with a "-" in the \w. what's the laziest way? |