[MLUG] Automated web search

["Jim Locke" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

A friend asked me the following question.  While I have ideas (primarily bookmarking this search, and seeing if Firefox will do something like automatically viasit the bookmark on a scheduled basis and  spit the result page out), I'm sure some here have better ideas.  Thanks in advance!
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"Do you know any programs that run automated web searches?  For example,
let's say I want to run the following Google search every morning at
2am:

       china OR PRC OR beijing -hu-jintao site:www.nytimes.com inurl:2007/12

I
know about RSS feeds, but I don't think they will meet my needs.  What
I imagine is something that would basically run like a chron page into
which a user could enter a search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc.) and a
query string.  The program would run a search on the string at the
selected time, then spit out a search result page in HTML, TXT or some
other common format.  Do you know of anything like that?"

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- Jim Locke.
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