Using the Internet

Introduction

The Internet is a fast and electronic medium of communication. You can send or receive message from one computer to another through the Internet. It is also a large reservoir of information. You need to perform a search using any of the available search tools such as the search engines.

Search Engines

A search engine is Software that enables users to search any information on the Internet. It is used to find the information on a subject even if the website that contains the information is not known. A search engine mainly uses two tools.

1.      A spider software

2.      Indexer

A crawler searches the Internet for new terms and stores the terms in a database. An indexer then indexes all the terms in the database to make the searching fast. We can follow these steps to find the information from the internet.

1.      Connect the computer to the internet. 
2.      Click Start and then click the web browser. ( Eg: Internet Explorer)

Created by:

Rinas

Grade – 7

Hilburn International Collage – Avissawella.