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ISP
IP & URL
Browser
Internet Addresses (IP & URL)Internet Addresses (IP & URL)
• Numeric addresses• Domain name
– Domain type abbreviations– Country code abbreviations
Compare Browsers Operating system support Browser features
– Bookmark management– Download management– Password managing– Form managing– Spell checking– Search engine toolbar– Per-site security configuration– Privacy mode– Auto-updater
Accessibility features HTML5 support Mobile Web technology support Plugins and syndicated content support JavaScript support Image format support Internationalization Security and vulnerabilities
Your Speed
USA vs. SK
California
Factors
Affecting
Your internet
speed
1. Your browser The program accessing the Internet needs to
process the data
2. Other software Programs like ad blockers and virus scanners process it
first
3. Operating system Your operating system may not be optimized
by default.
4. Your hardware The modem and in some cases old computer
hardware
5. Your LAN If you are on a LAN, common at offices,
other users share the connection with you
6. Your neighborhood Cable Internet users share their
connection to their ISP with their neighbors
7. Your connection The capacity and quality of the line
between you and your ISP are important and so is the physical distance for DSL
8. Your ISP The quality and capacity of your
ISP's equipment (DSL ISDN T1 T3)
9. ISP's connection The quality of their connection and
even more important, how many subscribers they have sharing it.
10. Router to router Your data gets passed from router
to router, how many depends on how many networks away the end server is
11. The target server Whatever server you are accessing needs
to have a connection and it too can get clogged with traffic
12. Your server The server your computer is communicating
with on the other end has the same speed factors like OS, LAN, and hardware
Options
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Searching the Internet
What is the best search tool?
Choose your search tool
Book Movie Theatre Journal Article Shopping Software University Program Dictionary,
Terminology Instructional Video
• (Amazon.com)• http://www.blockbuster.com &• http://movies.aol.com/• ERIC• Ebay• Amazon• Yahoo Directory• Wikipedia & • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/• Sunburst & United Streaming
Examples
http://www.zillow.com
Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com http://www.m-w.com/
Reliability
Auto Info
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/index.cfm• NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects,
etc http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
• Vehicle fuel economy ratings http://www.safercar.gov/
• Vehicle safety ratings http://www.nhtsa.gov/
• National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles• Environmental vehicles ratings
Limiting The Search
Be specific ... 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
Google ignores “stop words”
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:
will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page
related:www.starfalls.com
Wildcards
"don't ask country * ask" “Isaac Newton discovered *”
File Type
"First amendment" filetype:ppt
Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) Adobe PostScript (ps) Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki,
wks, wku) Lotus WordPro (lwp) MacWrite (mw) Microsoft Excel (xls) Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) Microsoft Word (doc) Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) Microsoft Write (wri) Rich Text Format (rtf) Shockwave Flash (swf) Text (ans, txt)
intitle:global warming
Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.
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:www.csulb.edu
inurl:
Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url
Calculator
(5+1)**2 3^20 sqrt(16)
Unit conversion
half a cup in teaspoons two pounds in kilograms 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories
Currency Conversion
150 British pounds 100 Mexican pesos
Define
define: "noble gas“ define: "democracy"
Area code
562 714 818
phonebook:(714) 389-0460
first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional)
first name (or first initial), last name, state
first name (or first initial), last name, area code
first name (or first initial), last name, zip code
phone number, including area code last name, city, state last name, zip code
Local search
Italian food 90025
AGoogle navigation barBSearch fieldCSearch buttonDAdvanced searchEPreferencesFSearch statisticsGContextual navigation HIntegrated resultsIPage titleJText below the titleKURL of resultLSizeMCachedNSimilar pagesOIndented resultPMore resultsQPlus Box resultsRRelated search terms
Synonym search
For instance, searching for ~ranch yields results relating to cattle, horses, and farms.
Weather
weather long beach
Time
time London
Spell Check
camputer
info
will present some information that Google has about that web page
info:www.lbusd.k12.ca.us
Order of Your Keywords
california movie movie california
stocks
stocks: aapl msft macr
Package tracking
1Z9999W99999999999
Movie showtimes
movies 90803
Airline Travel Info
american airlines 18
Patent number
Patent 5123123
link
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
link:www.csulb.edu link:www.lbusd.k12.ca.us
Search Tips
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
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