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: |
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Alta vista |
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Excite |
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Infoseek |
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Lycos |
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Webcrawler |
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Web directories: |
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Galaxy |
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Magellan |
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Pointcom |
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Yahoo |
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The Yellow Pages |
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