What can i conclude about web browser is browser, short for web browser, is a software application used to enable computers users to locate and access web pages. Browsers translates the basic HTML (Hypertext Mark Up Language) code that allows us to see images, text videos and listen to audios on websites, along with hyperlinks that let us travel to different web pages. The browser gets in contact with the web server and requests for information. The web server receives the information and displays it on the computer.. =p
The Familiar Web Browser are :
- Mozilla FireFox
- Netscape Navigator
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
What can you do with web
browser
§Browse web pages if you know the URL
•E.g http://www.utm.my
§Search the web using
•Search tools
–Search engines
–Subject Directories
–Name Directories
–Meta-Searchers
–Specialized Search Tools and
Searchable Databases
- Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs, however, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.
Examples of Web Search Engines
- Google.com
- Ask.com
- Yahoo.com
- TripleMe.com
- Shopzilla.com
- altavista.com
- Webcrawler.com
- Dogpile.com
Directory
A directory is, in general, an approach to organizing information, the most familiar example being a telephone directory.
1) On the World Wide Web, a directory is a subject guide, typically organized by major topics and subtopics. The best-known directory is the one at Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com). Many other sites now use a Yahoo-like directory including majorportal sites.
2) In computer file systems, a directory is a named group of related files that are separated by the naming convention from other groups of files.
3) In computer networks, a directory is a collection of users, user passwords, and, usually, information about what network resources they can access.
- Subjects
List
of subject directories :
Do you know about Meta Search????
A search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the results that are received from all. In effect, the user is not using just one search engine but a combination of many search engines at once to optimize Web searching. For example, Dogpile is a metasearch engine.
v Local Search / Maps
v Mobile Text Search
v Desktop Search
v Google Special Searches
v Audio/Video
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST.....
you need to know WHAT IS SEARCH TECHNIQUES..
§Identify key concepts, synonyms, and variant word
forms in your search topic.
Below are a few key Internet research techniques to use search engines more effectively and find the most reliable sources. The tips covered are:
- How to verify and find the strongest source for information
- Set your search results to 100
- Take advantage of the "Cache" link
- Find disappeared articles and older versions of webpages when you have the URL
- Use search engines to search a single website
- How to find reliable sources when you only have text or video
- Search for reliable videos
- Consider a "What You Can Do" section
Skill To Know =)
ØBookmarking
ØClear history
ØClear cache
ØClear URL
ØSave/using bookmark/favourite
ØSetting default page
ØMultitasking
ØDownloading
ØSetting
download folder
ØTemp files
ØPlugin
ØOther tools