If you attempt to reach the address on Line 31 by pasting it into your browser's address bar, you may see the underlying problem; the timing problem is that your "after a while" (a term of very low precision) may reflect the time burned in the loops at Lines 27-29.

Additionally:

• You mention "google news" but there's no Google News address anywhere in your script (as I understand it, for any English language results, searching for ]"google news"_ always requires a variant on "http://news.google.com/").
• Have you investigated (and ensured) that your effort satisfies any Terms of Use established by Big G?
• Are you confident that the individual who provided this code (NB: Less "use strict;" but with some odd formatting -- the indentation of the closing brackets at Lines 56-58 leaps off the page) wishes you well?

updated: Reordered phrases in bullet #1, for clarity.

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