Internet Terminology 1

Google, Yahoo, Ask, Yahooligans

A website that searches your words and phrases and returns relevant web pages

Use these when searching to return websites that have the terms together exactly as you type them

Identifies a site as a personal webpage

Higher education web addresses outside the US

Company addresses outside the the US

Network web addresses

Military web addresses

Higher education web addresses inside the US

US governement web addresses

Non-profit organization web addresses

School web addresses outside the US

US school web addresses

Company addresses

Uses computer programs called "spiders," "crawlers," or "robots" to match key search words with the web pages that contain them

Sends request for information to several search engines simultaneously and compiles the results

Searchable databases that are developed and maintained by human selection of sites to search broad subject categories

Unique phrases or terms (search string)

A search parameter, such as a title, genre, date of publication

Use operators with keywords to narrow search parameters

Narrows results by searching for pages that contain both keywords

Expands results by search for pages that contain either of the keywords

Searches for words in different languages

Uses computer programs called "spiders", "crawlers", or "robots" to match key search words with web pages

Search Engines, Subject Directories

Searchable databases that are developed and maintained by human selection of sites

Keyword, Field, Boolean Logic, Miscellaneous

"Search String" Keying a main idea, phrase, or concept in a search box

Search conducted for a specific title, domain, URL. or host

Uses operators such as, AND, OR, and quotation marks

Narrows results by searching for pages that contain both keywords

Expands results by searching for pages that contain either of the keywords

Individual Search Engine

Meta-search engine

Subject Directory

Uniform Resource Locator

Protocol, Domain name, Directory/folder

How the file will be transferred

Used to identify the details of the information's source in an URL

Used to indicate the type of server, such as org.edu.,mil

Instructs the URL to drill down into specific directories of folder for requested information

Indicates a personal web page

Indicates a specific document or program

Indicates a query

Information that confirms the author is who he/she claims to be

when people use other peoples work freely

Published work that has been protected to keep others from freely using it

To verify or prove that something is what it says it is or does what it says it's supposed to do

Genuine, real, original, true

Chatting, Blogs, Podcasting, Discussion Boards, Text Messaging, Email

hardware connected together to create a massive network

the software that sends information along the internet's hardware

a group of related files organized around a common topic

a single file within a web site, which has a unique name

translates the text-based HTML into a graphical web page

provides a variety of services that people use everyday such as, news, maps, directories, travel, shopping

web address, usually beginning with http:// and means 'uniform resource locator'blog

software that allows a user to access and view the World Wide Web

a file sent to your browser that records your activities on a web site

domain suffix used for educational institution

domain suffix used for organizations

domain suffix used for government websites

domain suffix used for commercial institutions like businesses