---
name: "WWW::Search::GoTo"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-search-perl"
version: "2.07-1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/WWW::Search::GoTo"
---

# WWW::Search::GoTo(3pm)

class for searching GoTo.com

## NAME

WWW::Search::GoTo - class for searching GoTo.com

## SYNOPSIS

```
    require WWW::Search;
    $search = new WWW::Search('GoTo');
```

## DESCRIPTION

This class is an GoTo specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting GoTo searches *www-GoTo.com*.

Nothing special about GoTo: no search options. It is much like Google in that it attempts to returm relavent search results using simple queries.

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

## NOTES

Uses result field `$result`-\>source which is helpful with this engine  because the the URL is owner encoded. `$result`-\>source will display a  plain base URL address and should be called after `$result`-\>description

## SEE ALSO

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

## HOW DOES IT WORK?

`native_setup_search` is called before we do anything. It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscores) and sets up a URL to the first results page in `{_next_url}`.

`native_retrieve_some` is called (from `WWW::Search::retrieve_some`) whenever more hits are needed.  It calls the LWP library to fetch the page specified by `{_next_url}`. It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to  `{cache}`.  If it finds a \`\`next'' button in the text, it sets `{_next_url}` to point to the page for the next set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we're done.

## AUTHOR

`WWW::Search::GoTo` is written by Jim Smyser Author e-mail \<jsmyser@bigfoot.com\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1996-1999 University of Southern California. All rights reserved.

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.