1. Using the Web effectively Using all the browser facilities Using search engines – basic Using search engines – advanced Using email from the browser Downloading files Alternative browsers Alternative platforms

2. Explorer Toolbar Back button Forward button Refresh button Home button Favourites button History button … you can also customise your toolbar…

3. Advanced search concepts (1) ChineseCooking

4. Advanced search concepts (2) ChineseCooking OR This retrieves all pages containing ‘Chinese’, ‘Cooking’ or both.

5. Advanced search concepts (3) ChineseCooking AND This retrieves all pages containing both ‘Chinese’, and ‘Cooking’.

6. Exercises Find a cookery book that specialises in Szechuan cuisine. Find all the restaurants in Bristol that serve Oriental cuisine. Find any restaurant in the UK that serves both Chinese and Indian food. Research any topic of interest to you that involves a non-trivial search.

7. Emailing from the browser http:// is just one of the protocols used by the WWW. Others are ftp://, telnet:// and mailto://mailto:// Prefixing a URL with mailto:// runs an email client (e.g. Outlook) and sets it up to accept a message.mailto://

8. Downloading files There are two methods: –Using the http:// protocol (less overhead for smaller files) –Using the ftp:// protocol (better for larger files)

9. Alternative search engines Yahoo Altavista and Altavista UK Dogpile Monstercrawler Vroosh Multimeta