NAME

WWW::Search::AltaVista::News - class for Alta Vista news searching

SYNOPSIS

require WWW::Search;

$search = new WWW::Search('AltaVista::News');

DESCRIPTION

This class implements the AltaVista news search

(specializing AltaVista and WWW::Search).

It handles making and interpreting AltaVista news searches

http://www.altavista.com.

Details of AltaVista can be found at WWW::Search::AltaVista.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should

be done through WWW::Search objects.

AUTHOR

WWW::Search is written by John Heidemann, <johnh@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.