NAME

WWW::Search::Infoseek - class for searching Infoseek

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Infoseek');
  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 Infoseek specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Infoseek searches http://www.infoseek.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

SEE ALSO

  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Companies>
  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web>
  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::News>

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

TESTING

This module adheres to the WWW::Search test suite mechanism.

See WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web for test cases for the default usage.

AUTHOR

WWW::Search::Infoseek is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com).

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.

VERSION HISTORY

If it is not listed here, then it was not a meaningful nor released revision.

2.06, 1999-12-10

handle infoseek.com's slight output format change

2.05, 1999-10-05

BUGFIX: parser for ::Companies and ::News; now uses hash_to_cgi_string()

2.04, 1999-09-29

BUGFIX: handle descriptions with embedded \n; ignore "company profile" URLs during Web search

2.02, 1999-09-28

BUGFIX: was going to the "previous" page instead of the "next" page!

2.01, 1999-07-13

1.18, 1999-07-09

BUGFIX for not seeing all the URLs on a page, and fetching the first page of results over and over(!).

1.16, 1999-06-30

Now strips HTML tags from titles and descriptions.

1.14, 1999-06-29

Companies and News searches now work!

1.13, 1999-06-28

www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever so slightly. Companies and News searches return URLs, but titles and descriptions are unreliable.

1.12, 1999-05-21

www.infoseek.com changed their output format.

1.11, 1999-04-27

Fixed BUG in parsing of News search results. Added version method.

1.08, 1999-02-09

Fixed BUG in parsing of Companies search results. Thanks to Jim Smyser (jsmyser@bigfoot.com) for pointing it out.

1.7, 1998-10-05

www.infoseek.com changed their output format. Thanks to Andreas Borchert (borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de) for patches.

1.6, 1998-09-18

Fixed BUG where (apparently) no titles were retrieved.

1.5

www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever-so-slightly.

1.3

First publicly-released version.

cpanm WWW::Search

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Search