NAME

WWW::Search::AlltheWeb - class for searching AlltheWeb

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
 my $search = new WWW::Search('AlltheWeb');
 $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query));
 $search->maximum_to_retrieve('100'); 
  while (my $result = $search->next_result())
    { 
    print $result->url, "\n"; 
    }

DESCRIPTION

AlltheWeb is a class specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting AlltheWeb searches. This is one of the fastest and largest search engines around. Unfortunately, it returns a lot of duplicates. One be wise to print results into a hash to sort and remove duplicate URL's or, my personal preference because lots of duplicate pages can have different URL's, is to sort on TITLE. http://www.alltheweb.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects. See SYNOPSIS and OPTIONS for usage insight.

AUTHOR

WWW::Search::AlltheWeb is written by Jim Smyser Author e-mail <jsmyser@bigfoot.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1996-1999 University of Southern California. All rights reserved.

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.