Appendix 7 Basic Definitions

Appendix 7 : Some Basic Definitions

Search Engine

A computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the Internet)

Browser

A program used to view HTML documents

Website

A collection of web pages, a collection of links between pages, programs that do services (such as look up things)

Query

What one is looking for when using a search engine to find relevant websites, the phrase you use to search

URL

The address of a web page on the world wide web.

Domains (.com, .org, .edu, .us, .net)

At the end of a url, denotes the administrative authority of the website. (.edu is for education, .com for commercial use, .org generally for organizations, .us for the United States)

Reference: Google for Educators