Browser, short for web browser, is a software application used to enable computers users to locate and access web pages. Browsers translates the basic HTML (Hypertext Mark Up Language) code that allows us to see images, text videos and listen to audios on websites, along with hyperlinks that let us travel to different web pages. The browser gets in contact with the web server and requests for information. The web server receives the information and displays it on the computer.
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There are different browsers for various things you do on the internet. There's a text based browser. With a text based browser you are only allowed to see text. Graphical material are not displayed. Hyperlinks are accessed by typing it in through the keyboard. An example of a text based browser is LYNX. There's a graphical browser and that allows the user to see all types of multimedia.
There are several types of browsers but the one thing they have in common is that they carry out the same function, they transfer hypertext. Here are some familiar common web browsers:
- Mozilla FireFox
- Netscape Navigator
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
Search Engines
Search engines are programs that help you in finding information on the web and the Internet. A search engine is a program that finds Web sites, pages, images, videos, news maps, and other information related to a specific topic or anything that you insisted to find.
As example, Google's search engine like most others, provides two different search approaches which are keyword search and directory search.
Scenario
Search engines and web browsers are very essential to the Internet users and nowadays there are various types of search engines. What will happen if there are too many web browsers? and how did we as the users decide which search engines is the best?
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