MetaCPAN

Modern Way to search on CPAN - Go to http://metacpan.org/ The CPAN is one of the best things about Perl. Take http://cpanratings.perl.org as an example.

http://search.cpan.org goes a long way towards making the CPAN searchable, but it could be so much better. The code behind http://search.cpan.org is not open source (that we know of), so we're not able to contribute back to it. Instead of coding a replacement for search.cpan.org, we're proposing a free, open web service which will provide useful data about CPAN distributions, modules and authors.  ...