Yahoo::Search 1.7.10 review

Yahoo::Search is a Perl interface to the Yahoo! Search public API. The following search spaces are supported: Doc Common web s

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 35K Developer: Jeffrey Friedl

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Yahoo::Search is a Perl interface to the Yahoo! Search public API.

The following search spaces are supported:

Doc
Common web search for documents (html, pdf, doc, ...), including Y!Q contextual search.

Image
Image search (jpeg, png, gif, ...)

Video
Video file search (avi, mpeg, realmedia, ...)

News
News article search

Local
Yahoo! Local area (ZIP-code-based Yellow-Page like search)

Terms
A pseudo-search to report the important search terms from the provided content or content+query.

Spell
A pseudo-search to fetch a "did you mean?" spelling suggestion for a search term.

Related
A pseudo-search to fetch "also try" related-searches for a search term.

(Note: what this Perl API calls "Doc" Search is what Yahoo! calls "Web" Search. But gee, aren't all web searches "Web" search, including Image/News/Video/etc?)

Yahoo!'s raw API, which this package uses, is described at:

http://developer.yahoo.net/

Requirements:
Perl