Can any search engine read Perl script?

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Can any search engine read Perl script?

derekwit

4:13 am on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

I know that Google has a hard time with Java what about pearl?

rfontaine

4:14 am on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

What is Pearl?

msr986

4:26 am on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

derekwit means perl, which is a server side language. Since perl is interpreted on the server BEFORE the results are sent down the wire, Google cannot read perl. In essence, Google has no access to perl, only the output of perl.

If your web pages are written in perl, Google will see them as normal html pages, no difference.

ciml

2:11 pm on Mar 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

As msr986 points out, Google gets the output, which needs to be Googlebot friendly. Also, Google is more likely to crawl the URL if it doesn't have "?" and "&" characters. In a Perl CGI script, you may wish to use something like PATH_INFO rather than something like QUERY_STRING.

Pedantic note: "Perl" is the language, "perl" is the software that runs it (and pearls are popular in jewellery. :-)