IntroductiontoWebBrowsersandBasicSearchStrategies.ppt

EDUC 478 Davina Pruitt-Mentle Introduction to Web Browsers and Basic Search Strategies Using Search Engines Davina Pruitt-Mentle EDUC 478 Outline History (WWW Internet) Search tools Search Engines vs. Subject Directory Meta search Engines Steps for Searching Effective Strategies Narrow or broaden a search? Wildcards Internet History Internet made up of thousands of networks worldwide No one in charge of Internet - No governing body Internet backbone owned by private companies Looking at the Net Understanding the Map Computers use TCP/IP to communicate (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Computers use client/server architecture Internet Providers: Research and Educational Institutions Government and Military Entities Businesses Private Organizations Commercial Providers Internet Protocols Email (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) Telnet (Login to remote host computer) FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - transfers files between server and client HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) History WWW or Web or W3 includes all information, text, images, audio, video, and computational services that are accessible from the internet July 8, 1999 Nature - approximately 800 million pages of publicly accessible information(1) Web continues to grow, tripling in size over the past two years(2) WWW System of Internet servers that support hypertext to access several Internet protocols on a single interface Almost all protocols accessible on Internet are accessible on web (email - FTP - Telnet - etc) In addition, WWW own protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTP Hypertext - means of information retreival Contains links that connect to other documents Links selected by user Virtual “web” of connections HTTP (cont) Produce HTTP through HTML HyperText Markup Language Way of writing or creating with “tags” added to tell information i.e. b Bold /b yields Bold More History Internet initially conceived in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (European Particle Physics Lab in Switz