its based on 7 th standard computer syllabus of state board of maharashtra. second chapter

1. USING SEARCH ENGINES

3. THE INTERNET
 IT’S A IMPORTANT
TECHNOLOGY OF
MODERN WORLD.
 Used to share information
and communicate with
the people or organization
all over the world.
 Internet is connected by
networks of telephone
wires, cables and satellite.

4. WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
 Is commonly known as www or web.
 It’s a part of internet.
 It’s a collection of millions of pages of information.
 This information can include text, pictures, animations
sounds and videos.

5. HYPERLINK
 The pages in www are all linked so that you can move
around and access them easily.
 Linked together by hyperlinks.
 Hyperlinks are usually underlined or in a different colour.
 If you move your curser to this…it will change to the
shape of a hand.

7. WEB PAGE
 It contains large amount of data. In the form of text,
graphics and sounds.

8. WEBSITE
 It’s a collection of web pages which contains related
information.
 Web pages are linked through hyperlinks.
 Moving from one website to another is known as “net
surfing”.

9. URL
 Stand for uniform resource locator.
 Its an address of an website.
 Each url is unique as telephone number.
 E.g.: www.google.com

10. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION ON
THE INTERNET
 SEARCH ENGINES
 Help us to search desired information from vast
database.
 Search for text
 Images.
 Videos
 Maps
 News etc.

11. EXAMPLES OF SEARCH ENGINES
 We need to type the keyword in the search box. it will
give a links to related websites.
 Google http://www.google.com
 Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

12. STEPS TO SEARCH INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
 Go to http://www.Google.Com
 On the webpage there will be a
box for you to type in a keyword.
 Type the keyword u are looking
for. E.g:
 on the web page there will be an
image that looks like a button
and has the word ‘search’ on it.

13.  click on it. Will start your search and bring up a new web
page with the list of web sites related to your topic.

14.  Click on one or more of the web site titles in the list,
which you think will best meet your requirement.

15. ADVANCED SEARCH
 Click on the advanced
search link on the search
engine’s web page.
 Click on this link will take
you to a web page with
advanced search options

17. METHODS FOR ADVANCED
SEARCHES
Operator What it does examples
“ ” Indicates a series of words
that must be appear next
to each word.
+ Indicates that all the words
must appear in the web
page.
- Tell the search engine that
you do not want a word to
appear in your search
* Use the wildcard(*) to
search for plurals or
variations of words.
AND, OR AND NOT Can be used to specify your
search.

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