My Wuw!!!!

Today I was googling to figure out how I could create a perl binding for a C library that uses strings. After wasting two hours browsing through google results, I decided to give yahoo a shot. As I was typing in ’swig string’ at yahoo search, I noticed it offered me a list of autocomplete options in a drop down menu. One of these options was ’std string perl typemap’. I selected this option and the second link in the search results was what I was looking for. Within 15 minutes I had sample code and full solution to the problem I was trying to solve.
As an experiment I tried using the ‘google search box’ at the top of my firefox browser since it also has a similar ’suggestions’ feature. To my surprise google’s suggestions were utterly lame and it ran out of suggestions after I typed in the first two words.

This doesn’t happen very often. Even though google continues to be my favorite search engine and my home page, I am really glad to find out that there are reasonably good options besides google as far as search is concerned.

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