Web browsers - A web browser is an application used to access and view websites., Examples of web browsers - Google chrome, Safari, Internet explorer, firefox, Search Engines - A Search Engine is a website that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web, Examples of search engines - Google, Bing, Yahoo, ask.com, Speech marks "" - Tells the search engine to ONLY FIND pages with the exact phrase in quotes., Minus symbol - excludes certain results example Downpatrick - Asda, Keywords - Important words in a search query, Define: - Looks for dictionary meaning of a word, URL - Uniform Resource Locator (Website Address) like the address of a website, it tells your computer where to find the website just like an address tells you where to find a house., Web Spider - This is a program that collects information from web pages and stores them in Index., Page ranking algorithm - An algorithm that ranks the web pages in a specific order., Using Specific Search - Using advanced searches to find information. Less webpages is a sign of being more specific when searching., A plus (+) symbol in your web search is the same as using - AND in your web search, A minus (-) symbol in your web search is the same as using - NOT in your web search, What is a Query? - A question or search you would like to find an answer for., WWW - World Wide Web, Search Engine Spider - Searches for keywords on the WWW and saves them in an index., Search Operators - +, AND, -, NOT , OR ,"", The Internet - A large network of linked computers and devices, Webpage Computer Language - HTML, HTML stands for - Hypertext Mark-Up Language,

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