Transcript Search Engine

The Internet (World Wide Web)
• HTML
The language use to format documents on
the web
• ISP (Internet Service Provider) A company
that provides customer connections
– ex Frontier, Roadrunner
Lesson
Slide 1
Web Addresses
• URL (uniform resource locator) is an
address for a website
– Ex: www.nasa.gov
• Domain Names: the .xxx at the end of
an URL
– gov
– edu
– net
Lesson
government
Education
Network providers
Slide 2
The Internet
• Web browser: A program that lets you find
and view web pages
– Internet Explorer
– Firefox
Lesson
Slide 3
Searching for Information
on a Website
• Search Engine: a program that performs keyword
searches
– Google, Yahoo! Windows Live, Ask, RedZee
Lesson 11
Slide 4
Searching Tips
• Sponsored Links: links may be shaded in color, on the
side, or near top
– Advertisers paid for these sites to be listed
– May not be most relevant to your search
• Capitalization doesn’t matter
• Boolean Search – use AND, OR, NOT
– Ex Dolphins not Miami Dolphins
• Use quotation marks: “big cottonwood canyon”
– This forces a search for the EXACT sequence of words
• “ski” brings up skiing, skis, skier, skied
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Slide 5
Personal Safety Online
1. Never give out private information
– Name, address, phone #,
2. Never send your picture to someone
you do not know personally
3. Never agree to meet in person
someone you have met on the Internet
Lesson
Slide 6
Data Safety Online
• Make sure you are using a secure
website
– Lock icon
Lesson
Slide 7
Plagiarism
• Plagiarism:
Claiming material created by
someone else as your own
Lesson
Slide 8