NAME

WWW::Search::Ask - class for searching www.search.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ask');
  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 search.com specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting searches at http://www.search.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

NOTES

The query is applied as "ALL these words" (i.e. boolean AND of all the query terms)

PRIVATE METHODS

In order to use this module, you do NOT need to know about these methods; they are just part of the underlying WWW::Search mechanism.

gui_query

In WWW::Search::Ask, the default query is the same as the GUI query.

strip

SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search.

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any!

AUTHOR

Originally written by Martin Thurn, based loosely on the code for WWW::Search::Search.

LICENSE

This software is released under the same license as Perl itself.