Dear Monks, I have been working on a program that returns the link count from google and I have come across a problem when using simple_request which is part of HTTP::Request. I found an example here (offsite) and used some of the code. Here is my code: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use URI;
use LWP;

foreach my $word (@ARGV) {
    next unless length $word;    # sanity-check
    
    my ($content, $status, $is_success) = &do_GET($word);
    
    if (!$is_success) {
        print "Sorry, failed: $status\n";
    } elsif ($content =~ /\sof\sabout\s<b>([\d,]+)<\/b>/) {
        print "$word: $1 matches\n";
    } else {
        print "$word: page not processable\n";
    }
    sleep 2;    #being nice to googles server
}
    
        
my $browser;
sub do_GET {

    $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new() unless $browser;
    $browser->agent('Mozilla/5.0');
    my $uri = URI->new('http://www.google.com/search');
    $uri->query_form('q' => $_[0]);

    my $resp = $browser->simple_request (GET $uri);  #THIS IS LINE 34
    
    return ($resp->content, $resp->status_line, $resp->is_success, $re
+sp)
        if wantarray;
    return unless $resp->is_success;
    return $resp->content;
}

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Here is my error from the script: 
TiB17:~/scripts/perl/lwp theloanarranger$ 2-6 friend
Can't locate object method "GET" via package "URI::http" at /Users/the
+loanarranger/scripts/perl/lwp/2-6 line 34.

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Please help,
-Matt

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