1. INTERNET BASICS FOR
SENIORS

2. What are the twelve basic types of Web
sites?
Business/
Portal News Informational Educational Entertainment
Marketing
Social Content
Advocacy Blog Wiki Personal
Network Aggregator
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3. What is a portal?
 A Web site that offers a variety of services from
one, convenient location, usually for free
 Searching, news, sports and
weather, Web publishing,
reference tools, stock quotes,
maps, shopping, e-mail, and
online communities
(Web sites that join
people with similar
interests)

4. What is a news Web site?
 Contains newsworthy material
 Stories and articles relating to current events,
life, money, sports, and the weather

5. What is an informational Web
site?
 Contains factual information
 Created by organizations and government
agencies

6. What is a business/marketing Web
site?
 Contains content that promotes products or
 services
Allows you to purchase products or services
online

7. What is an educational Web site?
 Offers avenues for formal and informal teaching
and learning

8. What is an entertainment Web
site?
 Offers an interactive and engaging environment
featuring music, videos, sports, games, ongoing
Web episodes, sweepstakes, chats, and more

9. What is an advocacy Web site?
 Contains content that describes a cause,
opinion,
or idea

10. What is a blog?
 Short for Weblog
 Uses a regularly updated
journal format to reflect the
interests, opinions, and
personalities of the author
and sometimes site visitors
 Video blog (vlog),
blogosphere, and
vlogosphere
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11. What is a wiki?
 Collaborative Web site that allows users to
create, add to, modify, or delete the Web site
content via their Web browser

12. What is an online social network?
 Encourages members to share their interests,
ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos
 Media sharing Web site

13. What is a content aggregator?
 Business that gathers and organizes Web
content and then distributes, or feeds, the
content to subscribers for free or a fee

14. What is a personal Web site?
 Web page maintained by private individual or
family
 Reasons: sharing life experience with the world
or job hunting

15. Web Search Engine
 A web search engine is designed to search for
information on the World Wide Web.
Search Engine Websites (example)
1. Google.com 4. Ask.com
2. Yahoo.com 5. MSN.com
3. Bing.com 6.
Yehey.com

16. Web Search Engine
 A web search engine is designed to search for
information on the World Wide Web.
Search Engine Websites (example)
1. Google.com 4. Ask.com
2. Yahoo.com 5. MSN.com
3. Bing.com 6.
Yehey.com

17. Google search basics: Basic search
help
 Search is simple: just type whatever comes to
mind in the search box, hit Enter or click the
Search button, and Google will search the web
for content that's relevant to your search.

18. Some basic facts
 Generally, all the words you put in the search
box will be used.
 Search is always case insensitive. A search for
[ zambales ] is the same as a search for
[ZaMbAles ].
 Generally, punctuation is ignored, including
@#$%^&*()=+[] and other special characters.

19. Phrase search ("")
 By putting double quotes around a set of
words, you are telling Google to consider the
exact words in that exact order without any
change.

20. Search within a specific website
(site:)
 Google allows you to specify that your search
results must come from a given website.

21. Terms you want to exclude (-)
 If your search term has more than one
meaning you can focus your search by putting
a minus sign ("-") in front of words related to
the meaning you want to avoid.

22. Terms you want to include (+)
 If you're searching for information on a topic in
which some terms are particularly critical, you
can add a plus (+) sign to that word or those
words in your search

23. For more search features
 Go to bit.ly/scagsf
 Exercise: bit.ly/scawebsearch