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NAME

search - a web-searching application demonstrating WWW::Search

SYNOPSIS

search [-e SearchEngine] [-o option] [-o option...] [-va] query

DESCRIPTION

This program is provides a command-line interface to web search engines, listing all URLs found for a given query. This program also provides a simple demonstration of the WWW::Search Perl library for web searches.

Currently the program does searches on AltaVista http://www.altavista.digital.com. We plan to expand WWW::Search to support other search engines in late 1996.

We plan to provide more sophisticated services using WWW::Search. One service is an periodic service where we automatically search the web for relevant documents. A prototype of this system (not yet using WWW::Search) is available at http://www.isi.edu/lsam/tools/index.html with sample output at http://www.isi.edu/div7/ib/jog/index.html.

OPTIONS

-e

Specify the search engine. Capitalization matters. Currently AltaVista, Lycos, and HotBot are possible engines. See WWW::Search for a possibly more complete list of supported engines.

-o

Specify a search-engine option.

-v

Verbose mode. Enumerate the returned URLs.

-a

Return all URLs. Some different URLs may refer to the same object.

SEE ALSO

For the library, see WWW::Search.

For a more sophisticated, see AutoSearch.

AUTHOR

WWW::Search is written by John Heidemann, <johnh@isi.edu>, with some additions by Wm. L. Scheding, <wls@isi.edu>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1996 University of Southern California. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute. The name of the University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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.