Searching on the WWW


Problem: What if you don't know the URL of the webpage you are looking for or simply want to research a topic.
Solution: Use a WWW Search Engine

Net Search Button

On your browser you will have a button called something like "Net Search Button". This will take you to a site maintained most likely by the company producing the browser, that lists some of the most common search engines. This is a great way to connect to these engines and finding out which are currently the most popular.

Using a Search Engine

You will get a lot of practice doing this and it is an important part of finding information on the Internet. A search engine webpage is a page that allows you to do the following:
  • Type in a topic, name etc. as a search string.
  • Let you browse topical areas.
  • Let you narrow your search or in other ways change your search parameters.

Steps to perform a simple search:
  1. Go to a search engine webpage (try http://www.lycos.com )
  2. Type in your search string in the window provided
  3. Hit the "Search" or "Findit" button
  4. You will be presented with a list of hyper-text links to webpages that somehow are associated with your search string. To go to them simply hit the link and hit the "Back" button to return to the search list of links.

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