WWW

WWW is today fastest growing part of the Internet. Each month around 15 to 20 million new web pages are presented on the Internet. Today web can transfer all kind of information from text to video. Navigation is just point and click. Everything is just a mouse click away. Like interactive CD.

For web browsing we need only computer, Internet connection and web browser.

USING THE WEB

It is hardly imagine what you cannot find on the web pages. Enormous amount of diverse information makes Internet so popular today. It is tendency that all information will be stored in web format in the future and accessible to authorized user. Many companies and universities already have a lot of material accessible on their Intranets in web format.

Many users use Microsoft Internet explorer or Netscape Navigator for web browsing today. Other users are in minority.

SEARCHING THE WEB

Because of enormous amount of information stored on the Internet we are condemned to failure to retrieve any valuable information without specialized web searching servers. Today we have two principals for web searching:

 

Examples of searching tools and directories:

Web searching tools:

Alta vista

altavista.com

Excite

excite.com

Infoseek

guide.infoseek.com

Lycos

www.lycos.com

Webcrawler

www.webcrawler.com

 

Web directories:

Galaxy

galaxy.einet.net

Magellan

magellan.mckinley.com

Pointcom

www.pointcom.com

Yahoo

www.yahoo.com

The Yellow Pages

theyellowpages.com

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