On Nov 18, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Gabor Szabo <ga...@szabgab.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Smylers <smyl...@stripey.com> wrote: >> Gabor Szabo writes: >> >>> In this article I explain how you can get your avatar to Google search >>> results involving your CPAN contribution: >>> >>> http://szabgab.com/claiming-your-cpan-authorship-at-google.html >>> >>> I hope many CPAN authors will implement this (if you already have a G+ >>> account it takes less than reading this e-mail) as I believe this can >>> drive more people searching on Google to better results on MetaCPAN. >> >> So Google are now giving enhanced appearance in search results listings >> to people who are prepared to sign up to a Google+ account? That doesn't >> sound very different from Google giving prominence in search results to >> people who pay them for that privilege. >> >> (Not criticizing your article at all, Gabor — given that Google are >> doing this, it makes sense for Cpan authors who are on Google+ to link >> their accounts as you describe.) > > Well, it is not new for Google, I think this feature was added to G+ > quite early. > > Anyway, to be clear, I don't ask anyone to sign up for G+ for this, but if you > have already sold your soul to the "Don't be evil", then it is nice to get > something in return :) >
I commented in the article, but I’ll bring it up here too: I want to know how we can get google to start showing metacpan results instead of search.cpan.org results. Right now if I search for Module::Build, my first page hit is: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Module%3A%3ABuild even duckduckgo does this. Todd
