WWW::Search::Lycos3pm

Usage

  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"; }

Overview

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.

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.