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| Boolean logic | Uses operators with keywords to narrow search parameters. |
| Boolean Operators | "Operators AND, OR, NOT and NEAR. |
| Browser | Special software program required to navigate the WWW that allows you to access information on the Internet. |
| Copyright | The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. |
| Directory | Best thought of as a "table of contents" on a computer disk or a path through folders on a webserver to a file. |
| Domain Name | A name that identifies one or more IP Addresses. |
| Downloading | Transferring data (files) from a remote computer to a location on the user’s local computer. |
| Fair Use | Legal term for uses of content that are considered valid defenses to copyright infringement. |
| File transfer protocol | An Internet protocol that allows a user to retrieve and transfer a file from a computer anywhere on the Internet to another computer. |
| Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) | Used to transfer files from a Web server onto a browser in order to view a Web page that is on the internet. |
| Internet | The worldwide “network of networks”. |
| Meta-search engine | A tool that allows you to construct a search and then forward it to many different Search Engines and Directories at once. |
| Protocol | An agreed upon standard for electronic communications. How the file will be transferred. |
| Query | A set of conditions that provides for retrieval of certain records. |
| Search | The ability to locate a string of characters or particular data in a document. |
| Search engine | Sites on the web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. |
| Specialized Database | A focused tool to search for information where information is usually limited to a specific topic but provided in-depth. |
| Subject Directory | A tool used to search the web created by editors or trained researchers who categorize or classify Web sites by subject. |
| Universal resource locator (URL) | The specific and unique address of a particular document file, graphic, sound, or video on the WWW. |
| Upload | To copy a file or information from your computer to another computer or server. |
| Web page | A multimedia file containing HTML codes which can be stored on a Web server and viewed by multiple platforms on the WWW. |
| Web server or Host | A computer that delivers (serves up) Web pages. |
| Web site | A collection of Web pages. |
| World Wide Web (WWW) | Hypermedia system that lets you browse through related documents on the Internet through the use of hypertext links. |
| Authentic | Genuine, real, original, true |
| Different Language Support | searches for words in different languages |
| equals (=) | in a URL indicates a specific document or program |
| .exe or .hqx | in a URL indicates an executable program |
| Field Search | The search is conducted for a specific title, domain, URL, or host |
| File Name | tells which specific document or program should be retrieved from the directory |
| Keyword Search | Keying a main idea, phrase, or concept (called a search string) in the search box with or without quotation marks |
| Math/equivalents | solves basic math problems and converts equivalents in the search engine |
| Phonebook | uses phone numbers to search for locations and addresses |
| Question Mark (?) | In a URL indicates that the web server will perform some type of calculation before returning the results |
| Server/host name | the origin of the information in URL. |
| Spell Checker | gives suggestions if the word keyed for the search is spelled incorrectly |
| Spiders | also called crawlers or robots, they are computer programs used by search engines to match key word searches with the web pages that contain them |
| Suffix/Extension | used to indicate the type of server in a URL (.com, .org, .de) |
| ~ (tilde) | indicates a personal web page |
| Validate | to verify or prove that something is what it says it is or that something does what it says it’s supposed to do |
