---
name: "WWW::Search::Infoseek"
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::Infoseek"
---

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

WWW::Search::Infoseek - class for searching Infoseek

```
  use WWW::Search;
  my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Infoseek');
  my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("+sushi restaurant +Columbus Ohio");
  $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
  while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
    { print $oResult->url, "\n"; }
```

This class is a Infoseek specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting Infoseek searches *http://www.infoseek.com*. This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through the *WWW::Search* manpage objects.

```
  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Companies>
  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web>
  L<WWW::Search::Infoseek::News>
```

To make new back-ends, see the *WWW::Search* manpage. Please tell the author if you find any! This module adheres to the `WWW::Search` test suite mechanism.  See `WWW::Search::Infoseek::Web` for test cases for the default usage. `WWW::Search::Infoseek` is maintained by Martin Thurn (MartinThurn@iname.com). 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. If it is not listed here, then it was not a meaningful nor released revision.\
 **2.06, 1999-12-10** handle infoseek.com's slight output format change\
 **2.05, 1999-10-05** BUGFIX: parser for ::Companies and ::News; now uses *hash\_to\_cgi\_string()*\
 **2.04, 1999-09-29** BUGFIX: handle descriptions with embedded \\n; ignore "company profile" URLs during Web search\
 **2.02, 1999-09-28** BUGFIX: was going to the "previous" page instead of the "next" page!\
 **2.01, 1999-07-13**\
 **1.18, 1999-07-09** BUGFIX for not seeing all the URLs on a page, and fetching the first page of results over and *over*(!).\
 **1.16, 1999-06-30** Now strips HTML tags from titles and descriptions.\
 **1.14, 1999-06-29** Companies and News searches now work!\
 **1.13, 1999-06-28** www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever so slightly. Companies and News searches return URLs, but titles and descriptions are unreliable.\
 **1.12, 1999-05-21** www.infoseek.com changed their output format.\
 **1.11, 1999-04-27** Fixed BUG in parsing of News search results. Added version method.\
 **1.08, 1999-02-09** Fixed BUG in parsing of Companies search results. Thanks to Jim Smyser (jsmyser@bigfoot.com) for pointing it out.\
 **1.7, 1998-10-05** www.infoseek.com changed their output format. Thanks to Andreas Borchert (borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de) for patches.\
 **1.6, 1998-09-18** Fixed BUG where (apparently) no titles were retrieved.\
 **1.5** www.infoseek.com changed their output format ever-so-slightly.\
 **1.3** First publicly-released version.