Possible to automate a web search?

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Published on 2010-06-17T16:57:27Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 8:53 UTC
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Is it possible in a website search form to enter in series of searches? I have a list of destinations and would like to see if for each destination the search returns a result or throws an error.

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