Repeat after me: browsing is just searching metadata.
For our current purposes I'm willing to go along with that. Once the metadata exists people can do whatever they want with it. I strongly suspect that one of those things will be making something that is vaguely yahooish.
This brings to mind an interesting question - shouldn't there be some central file of meta data that's automatically generated? Maybe in Storable and XML? That way people that want to experiment don't have to have a full CPAN mirror or dig data out of all of the tar files.
-- </chris>
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
-- C.A.R. Hoare
