A class the encapsulates the URLs used by various search engines.

SearchSpec.java
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/** Small class that encapsulates how to construct a
 *  search string for a particular search engine.
 *  Taken from Core Web Programming Java 2 Edition
 *  from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,

 *  May be freely used or adapted.
 */

public class SearchSpec {
  private String name, baseURL, numResultsSuffix;

  private static SearchSpec[] commonSpecs =
    { new SearchSpec("google",
                     "http://www.google.com/search?q=",
                     "&num="),
      new SearchSpec("infoseek",
                     "http://infoseek.go.com/Titles?qt=",
                     "&nh="),
      new SearchSpec("lycos",
                     "http://lycospro.lycos.com/cgi-bin/" +
                        "pursuit?query=",
                     "&maxhits="),
      new SearchSpec("hotbot",
                     "http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=",
                     "&DC=")
    };

  public SearchSpec(String name,
                    String baseURL,
                    String numResultsSuffix) {
    this.name = name;
    this.baseURL = baseURL;
    this.numResultsSuffix = numResultsSuffix;
  }

  public String makeURL(String searchString,
                        String numResults) {
    return(baseURL + searchString +
           numResultsSuffix + numResults);
  }

  public String getName() {
    return(name);
  }

  public static SearchSpec[] getCommonSpecs() {
    return(commonSpecs);
  }
}