Transcript Web Browsers, Searching, and Internet Infrastructure

Web Browsers, Searching, and
Internet Infrastructure
by Paula Walton
Title Bar
URL
Menu Bar
Toolbar
Address Box
Hyperlinks
Status Bar
You have been viewing pages in a
browser. You need to return to a
previously viewed page. Which button
allows you to do this?
Back
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You are loading a page in the browser.
The page begins to appear and then
stops. You need for the page to be
retransmitted to the browser. What button
of the browser allows you to make this
request?
Refresh
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You typed in a URL to go to yahoo.com.
As the page loads, you notice that you
typed in wwww.yahoo.com. What option
do you choose in the browser to interrupt
this request so that you may correct the
URL?
Stop
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You want to return to the site that has
been defined in your browser as the
starting point each time you connect to
the Internet. Which button will you select
to return to this page?
Home
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You have viewed a particular web
page several times during this
Internet session. You notice that it
took more time to load the page on
the initial load than it has on
subsequent loads. What function of
the browser allows this to occur?
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Cache
What is the purpose of a web
browser?
Communication
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What are hyperlinks?
Text
or images that direct your browser to another URL.
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Why are hyperlinks important?
So
you don’t have to memorize and type every URL
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you
want to go to.
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Identify some popular search
engines currently used on the
Internet.
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com
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Explain how a search engine locates
the information found on the Internet.
Spiders
scan web pages for keywords & URLS. A
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search
engine indexes the keywords based on a
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ranking system.
A literal search is
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Search using keywords or exact phrases
& can use Boolean operators.
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A natural-language search is
Search is asked as if you were
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speaking to another person.
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A general search is
Search using only keywords.
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The purpose of including meta tags on a
web page is
So the author can have his/her page indexed
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under what he/she wants.
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Downloading large files and music from
the Internet take up a lot of bandwidth and
time. If you need to do this, when is the
best time to do so and why?
Late in the evening & early in the morning because
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large business are using most of the bandwidth
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during business hours.
What year was the Internet started?
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1969
Who owns the Internet?
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No one
Who oversees its functions?
The Internet Society
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If I want to search for scholarships at
the University of Mississippi, what
will I key into my search box of my
search engine? Remember the
Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT,
and quotation marks.
Scholarships + “University of Mississippi”
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Be able to use Google to complete a
search, identify the number of hits
you received from your search,
identify the URL of the link of a site
you visit, and explain what
information is available at that link.