Internet Terminology 1
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Search Engine Example
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Google, Yahoo, Ask, Yahooligans
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Search Engine
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A website that searches your words and phrases and returns relevant web pages
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Quotation Marks
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Use these when searching to return websites that have the terms together exactly as you type them
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~ or %
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Identifies a site as a personal webpage
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.ac
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Higher education web addresses outside the US
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.co
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Company addresses outside the the US
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.net
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Network web addresses
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.mil
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Military web addresses
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.edu
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Higher education web addresses inside the US
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.gov
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US governement web addresses
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.org
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Non-profit organization web addresses
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.sch
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School web addresses outside the US
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.k12
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US school web addresses
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.com
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Company addresses
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Individual Search Engine
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Uses computer programs called "spiders," "crawlers," or "robots" to match key search words with the web pages that contain them
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Meta-Search Engine
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Sends request for information to several search engines simultaneously and compiles the results
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Subject Directories
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Searchable databases that are developed and maintained by human selection of sites to search broad subject categories
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Keyword
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Unique phrases or terms (search string)
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Field
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A search parameter, such as a title, genre, date of publication
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Boolean Logic
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Use operators with keywords to narrow search parameters
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AND
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Narrows results by searching for pages that contain both keywords
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OR
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Expands results by search for pages that contain either of the keywords
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Different Language Support
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Searches for words in different languages
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Individual search Engine
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Uses computer programs called "spiders", "crawlers", or "robots" to match key search words with web pages
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Internet Search Tools
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Search Engines, Subject Directories
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Subject Directories
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Searchable databases that are developed and maintained by human selection of sites
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Internet Search Methods
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Keyword, Field, Boolean Logic, Miscellaneous
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Keyword
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"Search String" Keying a main idea, phrase, or concept in a search box
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Field
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Search conducted for a specific title, domain, URL. or host
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Boolean Logic
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Uses operators such as, AND, OR, and quotation marks
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AND
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Narrows results by searching for pages that contain both keywords
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OR
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Expands results by searching for pages that contain either of the keywords
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Google
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Individual Search Engine
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Surfwax
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Meta-search engine
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http://scholar.google.com/
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Subject Directory
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator
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Components of a URL
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Protocol, Domain name, Directory/folder
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Protocol
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How the file will be transferred
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Domain Name
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Used to identify the details of the information's source in an URL
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Suffix/extension
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Used to indicate the type of server, such as org.edu.,mil
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Directory/folder
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Instructs the URL to drill down into specific directories of folder for requested information
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Tilde (~)
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Indicates a personal web page
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Equals (=)
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Indicates a specific document or program
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Question Mark (?)
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Indicates a query
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Creator
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Information that confirms the author is who he/she claims to be
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Fair Use
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when people use other peoples work freely
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Copyrighted
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Published work that has been protected to keep others from freely using it
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Validate
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To verify or prove that something is what it says it is or does what it says it's supposed to do
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Authentic
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Genuine, real, original, true
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Electronic Communications
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Chatting, Blogs, Podcasting, Discussion Boards, Text Messaging, Email
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internet
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hardware connected together to create a massive network
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web
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the software that sends information along the internet's hardware
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web site
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a group of related files organized around a common topic
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web page
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a single file within a web site, which has a unique name
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web browser
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translates the text-based HTML into a graphical web page
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portal site
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provides a variety of services that people use everyday such as, news, maps, directories, travel, shopping
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URL
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web address, usually beginning with http:// and means 'uniform resource locator'blog
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browser
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software that allows a user to access and view the World Wide Web
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cookie
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a file sent to your browser that records your activities on a web site
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.edu
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domain suffix used for educational institution
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.org
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domain suffix used for organizations
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.gov
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domain suffix used for government websites
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.com
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domain suffix used for commercial institutions like businesses
