I don't get it, you think google has a bias because it says that PHP is related to Perl, but Perl is not related to PHP? Or that Perl is not related to SQL. Or that Perl doesn't have any tutorials worth searching for.

Or that Perl doesn't have a plan when it comes to physicians? (I hear it's pretty well regarded by biologists, does that count?)

What point were you trying to make?

The former, I think. To me it reads as if Google thinks that people looking for Perl actually want PHP, but people interested in PHP, don't want Perl.

I think his point is that he meant to search for "tin foil hats foil mind control rays the truth is out there scully" and instead got PHP results. The Cigaret Smoking Man was unavailable for comment.

What point were you trying to make?

I just think it's completely ridiculous and therefore somewhat amusing and bizarre that the world's most popular search engine seems to think that the #1 "related" search to "perl" is something like "php". My most paranoid theory involves Zend secretly paying Google for sponsored "related" links. More likely some fanboys are somehow google bombing the algorithm that calculates what's related. I am doubting that it really is the most related search, whatever that means. --OP

• Clean the robots.txt - or specify only the bad robots
• use another url form, the node_id=99999 don't help
• use more css and a lot more HTML to format the site

I see that you've thought about this a lot, but I don't get it. Searching for "perl" at google.com yields what I consider the most relevant links on the front page, including a link to Perlmonks. A search for "perl tutorials" puts the Tutorials section of this site right at the top. Google does not seem to have much trouble crawling all over us, despite our URLs.

How many other keywords would we want to associate Perl sites with? The "related" feature on google is nifty, but I'm not interested in spending any time trying to sort through its inner workings just to get "php" off the list of related searches. It's not my business if people want to look at PHP after looking at Perl. They'll find a good language eventually.

"perl tutorial" is probably a more common search, and perlmonks is down in the pack for that one.

A bit of fiddling shows that Google is profoundly ignorant about this site, especially since perlmonks.thepen.com seems to be defunct.

A good, fast search engine on this site would be a huge. SuperSearch is a great tool and I use it regularly, but it is slower than Christmas. Last I checked this site is difficult to index properly, so if someone is volunteering to help, I am in favor of it. Not that my opinion matters much!

Then again, if it was easy to search, anybody could do it. Maybe we are better off being off the map.

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma

http://www.google.com/search?q=velociraptors shows nothing related :(. Google hiding things from the terrified populace again, no doubt.

"terrified populace" velociraptors turns up nothing. Very, very suspicious.

That's because you're using the plural.

"terrified populace" velociraptor

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xkcd has stuff on velociraptors terrorizing the populace -- or at least the comic's author.

There's also humor about computers, math, philosophy, etc.


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Also http://xkcd.org/c155.html. And on the practical side http://xkcd.org/c135.html.

for me it's dependent on the language the browser uses. if i set englisch as the first language i get the "Related to"-links, if i set it to german i don't get the links. =(

You need to scroll to the bottom of the Google search results page, where it says:

Searches related to: perl

Odd, that doesn't exist for me.

Update:

Odd, that doesn't exist for me in Firefox, but I see it in when I use IE. It's not a rendering issue either. It's not in the source when I use Firefox.