Topic 5    World Wide Web

This topic will help you to identify the kinds of information that are to be found on the Internet and understand the different techniques that can be useful when searching for web resources.

Most of us use the web on a daily basis for email, or for internet banking, or maybe for paying bills, finding sports results or cinema listings – it has quickly become a part of everyday life. However, given that it is a massive repository of information, how many of us have thought about how we can make the most of all that is there? We may use the expression ‘Google it!’ but if we do actually do that we may find ourselves swamped with thousands of results that aren’t quite what we need. How can we find out way through to what we really want? All the search skills we have learned so far can help on the web, especially those you practiced searching catalogues and databases. There are other techniques too and we will look at them over the next few pages.