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Seema Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 13: Internet Based Resources and Service Browsers

Unit 13: Internet Based Resources Notes

and Service Browsers

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
13.1 Internet Based Resources
13.1.1 World Wide Web
13.1.2 Web Browser
13.2 Web Application
13.3 Web Search Engine
13.3.1 List of Search Engines
13.4 Summary
13.5 Keywords
13.6 Review Questions
13.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
State the internet based resources
Discuss about Web application
Describe the Web search engine
Explain about the list of search engines.

Introduction
The Internet has spread technological literacy and given people all over the world fast access to
vast resources. Internet use is directly affecting people, ideas, and behavior. Internet has an impact
in many areas, including higher education, where it heralds the development and implementation
of new and innovative strategies. Scholars can communicate with each other, as well as they can
have access with library catalogues, bibliographic databases, and other academic resources.

13.1 Internet Based Resources
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet
protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that
consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to
global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking
technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the
inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to
support email.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are
reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) and IPTV. Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web
site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled or
accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social

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