INTERNET BASICS

LECTURE-02
WORLD WIDE WEB
• WWW stands for World Wide Web.

• The World Wide Web is a way of exchanging information between

computers on the Internet, tying them together into a vast collection of
interactive multimedia resources.

• The building blocks of the Web are web pages which are formatted in
HTML and connected by links called "hypertext" or hyperlinks and
accessed by HTTP.
• These links are electronic connections that link related pieces of
information so that users can access the desired information
quickly.
• A web page is given an online address called a Uniform Resource
Locator (URL). A particular collection of web pages that belong to
a specific URL is called a website, e.g., https://www.atc.ac.tz/,
http://172.31.31.13/sem22024/ViewOnly.php,
http://192.168.86.219:33455/web/index.html etc.
• World Wide Web is like a huge electronic book whose pages are
stored on multiple servers across the world.

• Small websites store all of their WebPages on a single server,

but big websites or organizations place their WebPages on
different servers in different countries so that when users of a
country search their site they could get the information quickly
from the nearest server.
 Web Page
 web page is a document available on world wide web. Web Pages
are stored on web server and can be viewed using a web browser.
 A web page can contain huge information including text, graphics,
audio, video and hyper links. These hyper links are the link to
other web pages.
 Collection of linked web pages on a web server is known as
website.
SEARCH ENGINE

• Search Engine refers to a huge database of internet resources such as

web pages, newsgroups, programs, images etc. It helps to locate
information on World Wide Web.

• A search engine is an online answering machine, which is used to

search, understand, and organize content's result in its database based
on the search query (keywords) inserted by the end-users (internet
user).
• To display search results, all search engines first find the valuable
result from their database, sort them to make an ordered list
based on the search algorithm, and display in front of end-users.

• Google, Yahoo!, Bing, YouTube, and DuckDuckGo are some

popular examples of search engines.
Difference between Search Engine and Web Browser:
Search Engine Web Browser

A search engine is used to find the information in Web Browser uses the search engine to retrieve
the World Wide Web and displays the results at and view the information from web pages
one place. present on the web servers.

Search engine is intended to gather Information Web Browsers are intended to Display the web
regarding several URL’s and to maintain it. page of the current URL available at the server.

No database is required in Web browser. It

A search engine contains its own database contains only cache memory to store cookies.

Example of famous search engines are: Google, Some of the widely used web browsers are:
Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckgo, Baidu Internet Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, and Google
Explorer. Chrome.
Following are the several search engines available today:
Search Engine Description
Google It was originally called BackRub. It is the most popular search engine globally.

Bing It was launched in 2009 by Microsoft. It is the latest web-based search engine that
also delivers Yahoo’s results.

DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo is an internet-based search engine which was founded in 2008. It

does not track, collect, and store our personal information. It is the best platform
for those who want to keep their browsing information secure and private.

Yahoo! It provides a structure to view thousands of websites and millions of web pages. It
includes various services such as Yahoo answers, Yahoo groups, Yahoo search
engine, and Yahoo messengers, etc.

Ask Ask was launched by Garret Gruener and David Warthen in 1996. The aim to
design Ask is to perform the search based on the questions submitted by internet
users.
YouTube YouTube was founded in 2005. It is the best video content delivery search engine.
YouTube offers the easiest way to learn new technologies.
ADVANTAGES OF SEARCH ENGINES
 Time-Saving
Search engine helps us to save time by the following two ways -
o Eliminate the need to find information manually.
o Perform search operations at a very high speed.
 Variety of information
The search engine offers various variety of resources to obtain relevant
and valuable information from the Internet. We can get information in
various fields such as education, entertainment, games, etc.
 Precision
All search engines have the ability to provide more precise results.
 Free Access
Mostly search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo allow end-users
to search their content for free. In search engines, there is no
restriction related to a number of searches, so all end users (Students,
Job seekers, IT employees, and others) spend a lot of time to search
valuable content to fulfill their requirements.
 Relevance
Search engines allow us to search for relevant content based on a
particular keyword.
Disadvantages of Search Engine
o Sometimes the search engine takes too much time to display relevant, valuable,
and informative content.
o Search engines, especially Google, frequently update their algorithm, and it is
very difficult to find the algorithm in which Google runs.
o It makes end-users effortless as they all time use search engines to solve their
small queries also.
 Address Bar
The address bar is at the very top of the page and can be used if you know the
exact address of the site you want to go to.
• To use it, type the address of the site, using the http:// is not necessary. The
address bar must be used to search for a site if the site has not yet been
indexed. This is the address bar:
 The search bar is used when you either don't know the exact address of a site
you are looking for, or when you would like to find multiple sites on a single
topic.
 When you use the search box you will be given a list of websites that the search
engine feels best meets the criteria of your search.