Because of the many interconnecting Web pages out there, if you're trying to do research, you may lose track of where you are or what you're supposed to be doing - resulting in possibly hours of lost time. This brochure is designed to help you become more familiar with using the Web in an academic setting. Browsers A browser is simply the program you use to navigate the Web. Netscape Communicator is one of the most popular, along with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Most browsers are, fortunately, easy to use.
A search engine is a Web page that indexes content for a significant number of Web pages on the Internet. Because Web pages' content, not just their titles or URLs, are indexed, it's important to be as precise as possible when you're doing a keyword search. Although these are probably not all related to the subject you had in mind, they do contain the keywords you searched for. Pages with the highest relevancy appear at the top of the listing - but they aren't always the pages you think you're going to get. By typing in a keyword, you can get a sense of how much material is on the Internet about that topic.