World Wide Web

Browser

• Use browser to access the web– Internet Explorer (Microsoft)– Firefox (Mozilla)

• On all PCs• Requires internet connection• Provides access to millions of

websites– Too much information!

Search Engines

• Helps find some information on web• Some examples

– Google (www.google.com)– Bing (www.bing.com)– Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

• Find text, pictures, maps, news, etc• Try Advanced Search• They are good, but miss much

Hidden Web

• Also called– Deep web– Invisible web

• Pages not indexed by search engines– Unlinked pages– Sites requiring signon– Databases

• www.searchsystems.net to see what’s available• No need to pay – search for database

What to do with data

• Print - all or part• Copy and paste into document • Create pdf (PrimoPDF)

– Download from www.primopdf.org (free)

• Save images (census, etc)• Save web address of good sources

– Save as bookmark/favorite