后来发现以下语句可行：
ie.div(:id, “searchList”).links

之后发现如下更好的语句：

links_searchlist = ie101.links.find_all { |link| link.class_name == ‘permalink’ }
puts “the links in the searchlist:”
puts links_searchlist.length

searchlistlinks = ie102.links.find_all { |link| link.id =~ /hitURL/ }
links_searchlist = searchlistlinks.length
puts links_searchlist

searchlistlinks = ie33.links.find_all { |link| link.href =~ /something/ }
类似的语句不行：searchlistlinks = ie33.links.find_all { |link| link.url =~ /something/ }

最近发现，如果链接数量比较多，以上语句耗时太长，通过google和百度，找到了更高效的语句：

links = ie51.div(:id, ‘threadlist’).html.scan(/something/).count
puts links