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Internet Basics: Understanding the Web and Search Engines

Learn the fundamentals of the Internet and browsing, including how URLS work, accessing the web, and navigating search engines. Discover the differences between popular browsers and search engines. Improve your online search skills and understand the key components of a good search engine.

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Internet Basics: Understanding the Web and Search Engines

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  1. Internet Basics

  2. Internet Basics Objectives After completing this class, you should be able to: • Describe what the Internet is and how it works • Navigate web browsers • Know how URLs work and how they are formed • Perform a simple search

  3. Internet Basics What is the Internet? • Internet, World Wide Web, The Web, The Net • A large computer network linking individual computers around the world • Often called “the web” because of the intricate, web- like way computers are connected

  4. Internet Basics Browsers Internet Explorer Chrome Firefox 11.8% 52.9% 28.2% Safari Opera 3.9% 1.8% As of August 2013 (w3schools.com)

  5. Internet Basics Accessing the Internet • Double-click on your preferred browser icon on the desktop OR single-click on the icon in the task bar • Displays Homepage

  6. Internet Basics Navigating a Browser • Forward/Back Buttons • Reload • Stop Loading • Navigation Bar • Bookmark Page

  7. Internet Basics URLs • Acronym for “Uniform Resource Locator” • Address of internet pages and files • Consists of three parts

  8. Internet Basics Protocol • Always at the front of the URL • http = “hypertext transfer protocol”- the language of web pages • https = “hypertext transfer protocol SECURED” - layer of encryption to hide your personal information and passwords - should always be the start of a page collecting your personal information

  9. Internet Basics Homepage • The page that is automatically displayed when you first open your browser • Can be left at the default or changed in the settings menu • Often defaults to Google or another search engine

  10. Internet Basics

  11. Internet Basics Search Engines Best Known: Google, BING, Ask, Yahoo! Three Key Features of a Good Search Engine • Relevant results (results you are actually interested in) • Uncluttered, easy to read interface • Helpful options to broaden or narrow a search

  12. Internet Basics The Big Two:What is the Real Difference?Bing vs. Google

  13. Internet Basics Basic Searching • Keyword Search – a search using words and/or phrases • Results return anything that include any search terms Precision & Recall

  14. Internet Basics Sample Results

  15. Internet Basics Review Try it! Find the names of upcoming Disney movies! Questions?

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