Terms

Browser Search Engine

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

Google ++

•Blogger

•Google Calendar

•Desktop for Windows

•Google Docs

•Picasa

•SketchUp•YouTube