Popular search engines include Yahoo, Hotbot, Excite, and Northern Lights Search. Request SLIP or PPP when calling your Internet service provider. They may also provide software to connect by phone line or high speed ISDN via this method. Sending the same message simultaneously to many newsgroups. The messages, often commercial in nature, result in flaming and, sometimes, lawsuits.
Topics range from the popular to the technical to the avant-garde.
Search program for locating Gopher files. Wide area information service. Search program for the World Wide Web. Individual collections of Web pages are called Web sites. Copyright 1998 Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute.