NAME¶
WWW::Search::Lycos - class for searching www.lycos.com
SYNOPSIS¶
use WWW::Search;
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Lycos');
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
{ print $oResult->url, "\n"; }
DESCRIPTION¶
This class is a Lycos specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and
interpreting Lycos-site searches
http://www.lycos.com.
This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through
WWW::Search objects.
NOTES¶
Warning! As of 2004-01, lycos.com often returns an error page in place of the
third page of results. So it is very difficult to get more than 20 hits for
any query!
www.lycos.com is sometimes slow to respond; but I have not had a problem with
the default timeout.
www.lycos.com does not give the date nor size of the pages at the resulting
URLs; therefore
change_date() and
size() will never have a
value.
SEE ALSO¶
To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.
BUGS¶
Please tell the author if you find any!
AUTHOR¶
As of 1998-12-07, "WWW::Search::Lycos" is maintained by Martin Thurn
(mthurn@cpan.org).
"WWW::Search::Lycos" was originally written by Martin Thurn, based on
"WWW::Search::Yahoo" version 1.12 of 1998-10-22.
LEGALESE¶
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.