Description
Performs a search for news articles using the Excite search engine at search.excite.com. Results are sorted by date.
Configuration Variables
mustHaveWordsThese words will be "anded" (+ AND +) together to form a search string.
mustNotHaveWords
These words will be negated (+ AND + NOT +) together and added to the search string.Product
Builds a VectorProduct containing a list of URL's and their descriptions.
How it works
Uses standard Java API calls to create a URL and read from the resultant stream. The html is then parsed and the interesting fields are extracted.
Revised: 7 July 1998