I don’t see much difference between the official Google Toolbar for Firefox and Googlebar, the extension I’ve been using. It’s a bit cleaner, but that’s the big shift I see so far… save the fact that Google did an official toolbar for a browser other than IE, which is pretty damn sexy in and of itself.
I need to learn Perl. I’m sure I can. I mean, I can (mostly) read it. I want to do some webscraping, and that seems to be the cheapest way to get there.