Terms b Browser b Search Engine

ISP IP & URL Browser

Internet Addresses (IP & URL) Numeric addresses Domain name –Domain type abbreviations –Country code abbreviations

Compare Browsers b Operating system support b Browser features –Bookmark management –Download management –Password managing –Form managing –Spell checking –Search engine toolbar –Per-site security configuration –Privacy mode –Auto-updater b Accessibility features b HTML5 support b Mobile Web technology support b Plugins and syndicated content support b JavaScript support b Image format support b Internationalization b Security and vulnerabilities

Your Speed

USA vs. SK

California

Factors Affecting Your internet speed

b 1. Your browser b The program accessing the Internet needs to process the data b 2. Other software Programs b like ad blockers and virus scanners process it first b 3. Operating system b Your operating system may not be optimized by default. b 4. Your hardware b The modem and in some cases old computer hardware

b 5. Your LAN b If you are on a LAN, common at offices, other users share the connection with you b 6. Your neighborhood b Cable Internet users share their connection to their ISP with their neighbors b 7. Your connection b The capacity and quality of the line between you and your ISP are important and so is the physical distance for DSL

b 8. Your ISP b The quality and capacity of your ISP's equipment (DSL ISDN T1 T3) b 9. ISP's connection b The quality of their connection and even more important, how many subscribers they have sharing it.

b 10. Router to router b Your data gets passed from router to router, how many depends on how many networks away the end server is

b 11. The target server b Whatever server you are accessing needs to have a connection and it too can get clogged with traffic b 12. Your server b The server your computer is communicating with on the other end has the same speed factors like OS, LAN, and hardware

Options b Internet Explorer b Firefox b Google Chrome b Apple - Safari

Searching the Internet

What is the best search tool?

Choose your search tool b Book b Movie Theatre b Journal Article b Shopping b Software b University Program b Dictionary, Terminology b Instructional Video (Amazon.com) & ERIC Ebay Amazon Yahoo Directory Wikipedia & Sunburst & United Streaming

Examples b

Dictionary b b b Reliability

Auto Info b NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects, etc b Vehicle fuel economy ratings b Vehicle safety ratings b National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration b Environmental vehicles ratings

Limiting The Search b Be specific... b How to use computers in teaching surfing? Computer applications in high school math teaching

and & or ignored by google California OR Denver California AND Denver expensive car + red chair Use the - sign to exclude disney -california -land -movie -tv

10 Keywords Limit b Google ignores “stop words” b a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with

Search Tips

related: b will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page b related:

Wildcards b "don't ask country * ask" b “Isaac Newton discovered *”

File Type b "First amendment" filetype:ppt

b Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) b Adobe PostScript (ps) b Lotus (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) b Lotus WordPro (lwp) b MacWrite (mw) b Microsoft Excel (xls) b Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) b Microsoft Word (doc) b Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) b Microsoft Write (wri) b Rich Text Format (rtf) b Shockwave Flash (swf) b Text (ans, txt)

intitle:global warming b Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. b allintitle: Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.

Domain=Site psychology site:com psychology site:edu textbook site:

inurl: b Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

Calculator b (5+1)**2 b 3^20 b sqrt(16) sqrt(16)

Unit conversion b half a cup in teaspoons half a cup in teaspoons b two pounds in kilograms b 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

Currency Conversion b 150 British pounds b 100 Mexican pesos

Define b define: "noble gas“ b define: "democracy"

Area code b 562 b 714 b 818

phonebook: (714) b first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional) b first name (or first initial), last name, state b first name (or first initial), last name, area code b first name (or first initial), last name, zip code b phone number, including area code b last name, city, state b last name, zip code

Local search b Italian food 90025

AGoogle navigation bar BSearch field CSearch button DAdvanced search EPreferences FSearch statistics GContextual navigation HIntegrated results IPage title JText below the title KURL of result LSize MCached NSimilar pages OIndented result PMore results QPlus Box results RRelated search terms

Synonym search For instance, searching for ~ranch yields results relating to cattle, horses, and farms.

Weather b weather long beach

Time b time London

Spell Check b camputer

info b will present some information that Google has about that web page b info:

Order of Your Keywords b california movie b movie california

stocks  stocks: aapl msft macr

Package tracking b 1Z9999W

Movie showtimes b movies 90803

Airline Travel Info b american airlines 18

Patent number b Patent

link b The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. b link: b link:

Search Tips b /features.html /features.html

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