WWW::Search::Profusion 1.04

WWW::Search::Profusion is a Perl class for searching Profusion.com!

SYNOPSIS

require WWW::Search;
$search = new WWW::Search(Profusion);

This class uses the Meta Search Engine http://www.profusion.com. Search engines searched are: 1) AltaVista 2) InfoSeek 3) Snap 4) Excite 5) LookSmart 6) WebCrawler 7) Magellan 8) Yahoo 9) GoTo

Most of the above defaults to Boolean. Profusion returns all retrieved hits to one page, so, there is no next page retrievals.

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

USAGE OPTIONS

There is 5 possible option values for type of search (default is All): Simple All Any Boolean Phrase

To search different categories with Profusion you simpy change the the base search_url to one of the following:

Newsgroups = http://usenet.profusion.com/ Health = http://health.profusion.com/ Entertainment = http://entertainment.profusion.com/ Sports = http://sports.profusion.com/ MP3 = http://mp3.profusion.com/

You can turn on totalverify=0 to weed out any bad links returned, but be warned it is slowwwwww. totalverify=20 would verify first 20 links and so on....