| A | B |
| World Wide Web | a "web" of computes connected together using hypertext documents to view its contents. |
| web page | a text document formatted with hypertext code |
| database | An organized collection of web pages that are categorized according to topics |
| Search Directories | Databases that have been created by humans and are used to organize web sites into categories |
| Search Engines | A huge collections of web pages that have been assembled automatically by machines. |
| Crawlers | robot programs that go out and “crawl” the internet for new web pages, come back and index them in the search engine category. |
| Spiders | another word for crawler-robot that goes out and captures information for web pages, returns for categorizing them. |
| Hits | search results presented in a list |
| Query | a search |
| Browser | program used to view hypertext pages on the World wide Web |