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Searching the Internet Essential Computers Series

Those we’re interested in relate to the services of what we do e.g improving search ranking, web design, web development, and many more. Remember that some search results are listings paid for by companies to promote their products or services, so the result may be biased towards them. These can be identified by words such as ‘Ad’ or ‘Sponsored Results’ and normally appear at the top or the page and in a column on the right of the page. Be aware that websites that promise free downloads of movies and music may lead you to a risky website. Be vigilant of the search results generated by each keyword.

This is a program that runs on your computer that displays pages from the internet – your computer should have at least one installed already. Examples of commonly used web browsers are Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox – they all … Read More

Getting online and searching the web

Microsoft’s search engine provides different services including image, web and video search along with maps. Bing introduced Places (Google’s equivalent is Google My Business), this is a great platform for business to submit their details to optimise their search results. People are now becoming more and more dependent on search engines to get the answer for their everyday queries. Some search engines also use warning pages to warn you that you are about to receive results which may contain or link to potentially harmful material.

The World Wide Web or WWW or “The Web” consists of documents which have been turned into web pages which are stored on computers around the Internet. Each group of related pages in one location on the network is called a web site. Information on any of these pages can be in any data format including text, graphics, tables, sounds and movie clips. HTML is … Read More