With WWW::Mechanize, you need to first get the page before you can check for success or access its contents.

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($search_page);

if (!$mech->success())
{
   die "ISite didn't respond";
}

my $stuff = $mech->content();
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