NAME

       WWW::Search::AltaVista::News - class for Alta Vista news searching

SYNOPSIS

           require WWW::Search;
           $search = new WWW::Search('AltaVista::News');

DESCRIPTION

       This class implements the AltaVista news search (specializing AltaVista and WWW::Search).  It handles
       making and interpreting AltaVista news searches http://www.altavista.com.

       Details of AltaVista can be found at WWW::Search::AltaVista.

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

METHODS

   native_setup_search (private)
       This method does the heavy-lifting after native_query() is called.

   parse_tree
       This method parses the HTML of the search results.

AUTHOR

       "WWW::Search" is written by John Heidemann, <johnh@isi.edu>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996 University of Southern California.  All rights reserved.

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       the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute.  The name of the University may
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