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Wikia Search issues community-based challenge to Google and Yahoo

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT
Yesterday brought the alpha release of Wikia Search, a new engine built on free software and free culture values. For Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales, the release is a milestone in the realization of a long-held dream. However, as he tells Linux.com, Wikia Search is still a couple of years from maturity, with many of the details still to work out.

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www::search::yahoo::uk

WWW::Search::Yahoo::UK(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       WWW::Search::Yahoo::UK(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Search::Yahoo::UK - class for searching Yahoo! UK (not Ireland)

SYNOPSIS

	 use WWW::Search;
	 my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Yahoo::UK');
	 my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("Surrey");
	 $oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
	 while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
	   print $oResult->url, "
";

DESCRIPTION

       This class is a Yahoo! UK specialization of WWW::Search.  It handles making and interpreting searches on Yahoo! UK http://uk.yahoo.com.

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

NOTES

SEE ALSO

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

BUGS

       Please tell the maintainer if you find any!

TESTING

       There are no tests defined for this module.

AUTHOR

       "WWW::Search::Yahoo" is maintained by Martin Thurn (mthurn@cpan.org).

LEGALESE

       Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn

       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.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-02					       WWW::Search::Yahoo::UK(3pm)

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