NAME
WWW::Search::Lycos - class for searching www.lycos.com
SYNOPSIS
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"; }DESCRIPTION
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.
SEE ALSO
To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.
BUGS
Please tell the author if you find any!
AUTHOR
As of 1998-12-07, WWW::Search::Lycos is maintained by Martin Thurn (mthurn@cpan.org).
WWW::Search::Lycos was originally written by Martin Thurn, based on WWW::Search::Yahoo version 1.12 of 1998-10-22.
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
For newer changes, see the file ChangeLog in the WWW-Search-Lycos distribution.
2.09, 1999-12-26
output format fixes, and query string changes for searching Lycos.com (dbradford@bdctechnologies.com)
2.08, 1999-12-22
point to new path on lycos.com (thanks to David Bradford dbradford@bdctechnologies.com)
2.07, 1999-12-10
more output format fixes, and missing 'next' link for Sites
2.05, 1999-12-03
handle new url and new output format for Lycos::Sites.pm
2.04, 1999-10-22
use strip_tags(); extract real URL from www.lycos.com's redirection URL
2.03, 1999-10-05
now uses hash_to_cgi_string()
2.02, 1999-09-30
Now able to get Web Sites results via child module Sites.pm
2.01, 1999-07-13
1.04, 1999-04-30
Now uses lycos.com's advanced query format.
1.02, 1998-12-10
First public release after being adopted by Martin Thurn.