Browsers

Search engines

A search engine is a special type of web site that enables you to locate information on the WWW.  Search engines use a computer programs called spiders which travel from one web site to another and indexing the content of the web pages it finds based on the keywords used in a search.  Search engines access only a small fraction of the web and are generally about 6 months behind.  Some of the search engines listed below offer much more than a searching utility.  They offer subject guides, email, references, news and sports, chat rooms, online shopping malls and other services.

Searching strategies

Citing online resources

Author last name, author first name.  "Web page title."  Web site title.  Date created or revised.  <Full internet address>  Date you viewed the webpage.

Email

FTP

When a URL contains ftp, it means you are connecting to a file server and not a web server.  FTP is a two way system in which files may be transferred back and forth between a server and another computer.