Information Search Program on the Internet

Question

Hi all,
Do you know any program written in Java that go on the internet
and search for data that we specify. What kinda of java package
am I supposed to look at if I want to write one.
Thanks,
TC

Answer 1

yes sure..the following sode is a simple search engine that searches for the required keyword on the yahoo search engine.Hope it helps:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class searchengine extends JFrame
JTextField text;
JButton search;
JPanel background;
String s;
String Searcher;
public searchengine()
     text=new JTextField();
     search=new JButton("Search YahOO");
     background=new JPanel();
     background.setBackground(new Color(250,255,205));
     background.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.getContentPane().add(background);
     background.setLayout(null);
     Rectangle r=new Rectangle(20,20,150,30);
     text.setBounds(r);
     r.translate(0,40);
     search.setBounds(r);
     search.setForeground(new Color(240,230,140));
     background.add(text);
     background.add(search);
     search.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
     System.out.println(     text.getText());
          Searcher="http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p="+text.getText()+"&w=dir&fr=op&o=a&h=&g=0&n=20";
          String[] exp=
{"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE",Searcher};
          try
          Runtime.getRuntime().exec(exp);
          catch(Exception e)
               e.printStackTrace();
     setVisible(true);
     setLocation(400,200);
     setSize(200,150);
addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent w)
          hide();
public static void main(String []args)
     searchengine s1=new searchengine();
     s1.show();