Searching web-pages

katie — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:20:11 +0000

The web-browser is a great tool for research. To find information on the web, you can use a search engine to look for relevant words (keywords) that are embedded in web-pages. Search engines store information about web-pages, which they gather using automated systems known as 'web-crawlers'. When you enter keywords into a search engine, they search their own databases for web-pages containing those keywords. The search engine lists the results, with the more frequently visited web-pages at the top of the list. The most commonly used search engines are Google, Yahoo and Bing.

When using a search engine, make your searches as simple as possible and use as few words as possible — 'weather bangalore' will give better results than 'weather report for Bangalore, India'. Think of how things might be written on the page you are looking for: 'Stomach ache' will yield better results than 'my stomach hurts'.

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Browsing web-pages

katie — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:59:28 +0000

A web-browser is the main way for you to view information on the internet. If you are reading this guide on the web, then you are using a web-browser to do it. The most commonly used browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome. Most of what you do on the internet can be done via the web-browser.

This includes: -

Reading web-pages
Research using a search engine
Reading and composing email
Creating and editing documents and spreadsheets, using online applications
Interacting with online communities and networks
Creating and updating your own web-pages
Communicating in real time via text and voice.

Things you will find in a web browser:

An address bar where you can type the address (or URL) of a website (such as www.tacticaltech.org).
A search window (in which you can type keywords) that connects to a search engine
A home button which will take you back to a designated web-page that is opened every time you restart your browser (this can be changed in the 'preferences' or 'options' menus).
A stop button which will stop a web-page from loading. This is helpful if the page seems to be taking a while to download into your browser
A reload/refresh button which will start downloading the page again from the beginning
Forward and Back buttons which make it easy to navigate through pages you have already browsed.
A bookmark bar, where you can store website addresses which you might want to visit again.

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