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Internet
How do I connect to the internet?
Your notebook may be equipped with a Windows
®
operating system to provide fully-integrated Internet
experience. Use the
Internet Connection Wizard
on your desktop to configure your system for e-mail and
Internet access. Sign up for a new account or configure your system to use an existing account.
Before using the
Internet Connection Wizard
, to transfer an existing account for e-mail and Internet access,
you need an Internet service provider (ISP) account and some or all of the following configuration
information:
•
the dial-up telephone number
•
TCP/IP
settings
•
port
settings
•
a user name/logon and password
•
your
address
•
the name of a POP3, IMAP, or HTTP server (for incoming mail)
•
the name of an SMTP server (for outgoing mail)
The
Internet Connection
Wizard
offers the following choices:
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Sign-up for a new Internet account. Take advantage of the
Microsoft Internet Referral Service
.
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Transfer an existing Internet account.
•
Manually configure an Internet account or connect through a local area network (LAN).
For more information on how to launch this wizard, refer to the
'Tips'
section of this guide relevant to your
operating system.
How do search engines work?
Searching the Web actually means searching intermediate databases since it is not possible to directly
search the World Wide Web, which contains an estimated 1 billion documents. The Web is the totality of web
pages found in computers (called "servers") worldwide.
Search engines use software or robot programs (called "spiders") to search the Net for documents and the
corresponding addresses (Uniform Resource Locator). These documents and web addresses are then
collected in the search engine's indexing software. The indexing software, after getting information from the
documents, stores the information in a database. Indexing the information varies depending on the type of
engines. Some engines index key words in a document while others index the document title. When you
perform a search, the database is being searched for documents that match, and the results are displayed
on a web page.
There are two main categories of Internet search tools:
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Search engines and meta-search engines
work by processing the search terms you type in and listing
the possible web sites that can be found under that subject. Examples of search and meta-search
engines are AltaVista and Metacrawler.
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Subject directories display by categories
. These categories are organized into hierarchies or a list
from generic to specific topics. Yahoo is an example of a subject directory where links are sorted in
hierarchical structure.
