1 Search Engines. 2 1. What is the Internet? The Web is only part of the Internet The Internet is a computer network connecting millions of computers.

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Search Engines

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1. What is the Internet?

• The Web is only part of the Internet

• The Internet is a computer network connecting millions of computers all over the world. It provides communications to governments, businesses, universities, schools and homes

(Davies, 1999).

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2. How to find materials on the Web

• Search engines: such as Google, which is currently the most popular search engine on the Web, key in a word or key phrase in any language, and the search engine will find it.

• When searching, the most important thing is to hit on the keywords that will bring up the information you are looking for.

• For example, you may be looking for lyrics of French songs. The keywords are lyrics French songs. These three keywords will probably find all the sites that contain these keywords, but not necessarily in that order.

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• Google is a very efficient search engine.

• You can also search for images and news items in the world's press by clicking on the Images or the News tab and Maps.

• You can also use Google as a simple concordancer to search for collocations that you are unsure about. Is it possible, for example, to say "a metal wood"?

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How to Use Search Engines?

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Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/

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10Language Switch (equivalent foreign-language entries )

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Wikis

• A wiki is essentially a series of interlinked collaborative Web pages that can be edited and added to by a group of people - an online resource for which content can be created collectively. It allows anyone who views the wiki to add to or edit the existing content as if they were adding to or editing, e.g. Wikipedia.

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