On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 May 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, I've been thinking about it. There was one site that has offered me
> > > to provide a good search engine and they did, but the problem is that they
> > > didn't keep up with new releases, so people were searching the outdated
> > > version, which is quite bad -- I've removed the reference to it, after
> > > asking them to update their copy for a few months, with no results.
> >
> > Can't we use WWW::Search - If I recall correctly some of the sites can be
> > restricted to a domain, so you could build a search interface pretty
> > easily.
>
> DESCRIPTION :
> This class is the parent for all access methods supported by the
> WWW::Search library. This library implements a Perl API to web-based
> search engines.
>
> It's not the search engine -- it's a Perl API to the search engines. We
> need a search engine not the API to it. Did I miss something?
Yes. On some of the search engines (AltaVista springs to mind) you can
search for things on particular web sites, or even links to particular web
sites. So as long as AltaVista keeps its search contents up to date, you
can leverage their engine. IIRC either Randall or Lincoln did a
WebTechniques article about this a few months ago.
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