I've tried to do this a few times before as well (never actually found a solution). Even if you have the search pattern, you can't extract the contents of that page.

I think what you need to do is setup your own bot/client in order for Google to allow you access.

If you try the following code, you'll see you can't get back the contents.. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use LWP::Simple;

my $source = get("http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=langley+public+l
+ibrary&meta=");

print $source;

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In reply to Re^2: LWP and Google by sulfericacid
in thread LWP and Google by Anonymous Monk

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