MetaSearcher 2.0

This is free script, which allow you to metasearch the google
and customize search results via html templates.

You not allowed to make changes in script and allways must
link in search pages to http://www.mycgiscripts.com

If you not like it - buy commercial addon to this script, which
allow you to remove our link and metasearch all categories (14) of
amazon.com with affiliate program support (you will be paid for
users purchases). 
Also this addon support list of bestsellers for books, video,
music, dvd, vhs, electronics,hardware, software, kitchen, toys, video games.

Simply goto to http://www.mycgiscripts.com/metasearcher.html for demo

Warning! 27-Oct-2001

We noticed what some of our customers have trouble with google
web search. After checking this situation we detect this trouble.

1. Google have blacklist ip database, and disable access to his
   search engine if

1.1 You hosted on popular free hosting provider
    as hypermart.net , virtualave.net, etc.
1.2 If in past any customer of your hosting provider automatically
    checked linkpopularity for domains (of expired domains for example).

In this cases google blacklist ip network of your provider, and script 
allways be give next error : "NO RESULTS"


For fixing this situation we added alternative search engine to script
AllTheWeb.

If you have any troubles with google - simply change in
meta.cgi
require "websearch-google.pl";               #basic search module

to

require "websearch-alltheweb.pl";               #basic search module

PS: Script cannot handle two search engines in one time! Not add both.




How to install script:

If you hosted on windows NT you need to 
1. rename meta.cgi to meta.pl
2. edit in meta.pl (change name of script in edit section)
3. edit name of script in html templates

1. Open meta.cgi file 
1.1 Edit first line of script to real perl location on your system.
1.2 Edit variables as timeout (how long script can wait results from
    search engines). If you not familar with it - you can simply skip this step
    and default variables will be used.
1.3 Edit html templates (read in bottom about special tags for html templates)
1.4 Upload meta.cgi and websearch.pl on your server in ASCII mode
1.5 Upload in same directory all files with .html extensions (templates)
1.6 run from browser - http://www.yoursite.com/path to script/meta.cgi

it all.


2. Special tags in html templates.
For output search results in templates we using some tags, which
allow us to dynamically insert search results in your html template.

2.1 web_link.html

This template show how looks every search link.

Additional tags

<%id%> - link id
<%url%> - link url
<%title%> - link title
<%descr%> - link description

2.2 metasearch_error.html
This template displays if script find any errors

Additional tags

<%select%> - used for selection of search area (web, amazon, etc) - don't touch this
<%message%> - error description
<%query%>   - entered search term

2.3 metasearch_results.html
This template displays actual search results

<%select%> - used for selection of search area (web, amazon, etc) - don't touch this
<%query%>   - entered search term
<%total%>   - total search results
<%next%>    - navigation table for walking via search results pages
<%search_results%> - search results


It all. If you have any questions - email to support@mycgiscripts.com

Don't forget - earn income allowing your visitors to metasearch amazon.com in
14 categories with photos (+ 10 bestsellers lists with photos). You will be
paid from one place - 15% from order sum.
Also in this case you not need to display link to mycgiscripts.com in
your search results.
Just goto http://www.mycgiscripts.com/metasearcher.html 
for this.

Goto http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/associates/join/associates.html
to check your potential earning level and join amazon com affiliate
program.

(c)-2001 http://www.mycgiscripts.com  by Alex Lavitsky