Transcript The Worldwide Web

World Wide Web
Browser
• Use browser to access the web
– Internet Explorer (Microsoft)
– Firefox (Mozilla)
• On all PCs
• Requires internet connection
• Provides access to millions of websites
– Too much information!
Search Engines
• Helps find some information on web
• Some examples
– Google (www.google.com)
– Bing (www.bing.com)
– Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
• Find text, pictures, maps, news, etc
• Try Advanced Search
• They are good, but miss much
Hidden Web
• Also called
– Deep web
– Invisible web
• Pages not indexed by search engines
– Unlinked pages
– Sites requiring signon
– Databases
• www.searchsystems.net to see what’s available
• No need to pay – search for database
What to do with data
• Print - all or part
• Copy and paste into document
• Create pdf (PrimoPDF)
– Download from www.primopdf.org (free)
• Save images (census, etc)
• Save web address of good sources
– Save as bookmark/favorite