Probably one of their few hits for today. Haha Honestly, I've haven't heard anyone even mention them in years. What people are actually going there?

Anyway.. it looks like at some point they scooped up Tripod and Angelfire. Tripod looked somewhat modernized but no longer offered free hosting. Angelfire on the other hand. oh boy. It's amazing they're still hosting free and cheap paid sites. Though the free tier is the same that geocities gave back in the late 90s. 20mb of storage, one website and Perl/CGI support. They're the first free host that I've seen that offers Perl out of the gate like that. I might have to sign up just to try it and have a trip down memory lane.

You're right about Google. Everything these days is all SEO and content doesn't matter. The higher on the list you are, the more clicks you get and the more ad money you get.

A common thing in Perl is to pass arguments as a hash so they're named and order doesn't matter. Also, you can easily have optional params that way too.

Ex:

my $result = $some_instance->get_result(
  type => 'text', 
  max_results => 10, 
  exclude => 'html'
);

I actually sort of like having the option to pass params like that. It makes it easy to see what's getting passed on a quick look instead of just:

my $result = $some_instance->get_result('text', 10, 'html');