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ActiveState Releases Module for Searching Google

posted by pudge on 2002.04.27 4:11   

Lori Pike writes "As many of you are aware, Google has released a cool new beta Web service that allows programmers to use Google's search engine through SOAP. Programmers will be able to query more than 2 billion Web documents accessible from the Google search engine from their own scripts. ActiveState makes it easy to use this service by providing Google modules for Perl and Python through our Programmer's Package Manager (PPM). This is freely available to the community through our ActivePerl PPM and ActivePython pyPPM." It looks like a nice interface, even if GoogleSearch isn't a very nice namespace.

• WWW::Google::Search (Score:4, Insightful)

  by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2002.04.27 6:16 (#7637) Homepage Journal

  How does this differ from WWW:Google::Search [cpan.org]?

  And it seems as though the ActiveState module is only available thru PPM. Why isn't it on the CPAN [cpan.org]?

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  • Re:WWW::Google::Search (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    How does this differ from WWW:Google::Search [cpan.org]?
    
    It has a different name and API ;-)
    
    And it seems as though the ActiveState module is only available thru PPM. Why isn't it on the CPAN?
    
    Because there's no requirement for anyone to put anything there.
    • Re:WWW::Google::Search (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      Well, ActivePerl isn't on CPAN either...it's a control of distribution issue as I recall.