how is the internet use

 HOW IS INTERNET USE

           HOW IS INTERNET USE?



  INTRODUCTION:
 SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org
          

As the internet has grown, it has developed into a multifaceted tool with a vast range of uses. It's now easy to keep in touch with friends, publish your own articles, or even watch your favorite TV shows using the internet.
In this lesson, we'll talk about some of the ways the Internet is used today, including blogs, social networking, instant messaging, VoIP, and media.

Uses of Internet

 

Internet has been the most useful technology of the modern times which helps us not only in our daily lives, but also our personal and professional lives developments. The internet helps us achieve this in several different ways.
For the students and educational purposes the internet is widely used to gather information so as to do the research or add to the knowledge of any sort of subject they have. Even the business personals and the professions like doctors, access the internet to filter the necessary information for their use. The internet is therefore the largest encyclopedia for everyone, in all age categories.
The internet has served to be more useful in maintaining contacts with friends and relatives who live abroad permanently. The easiest communication means like the internet chatting systems and the emails are the best and the most common for the maintaining contacts with the people around the world.
Not to forget internet is useful in providing with most of the fun these days. May it be all the games, and networking conferences or the online movies, songs, dramas and quizzes, internet has provided the users with a great opportunity to eradicate the boredom from their lives.
Internet is also used to upgrade the internet and use special software to work on the projects and documentation works as the internet enables the user to download a myriad of different software for a variety of different purposes, making it much easier than buying the costly software cds.



                USE FOR COMMUNICATION

 SOURCE http://wiki.answers.com

 The Internet could be used for communication in many different ways. For example, email messages are sent over the internet. When people make websites, that is using the internet to communicate information to the readers. The internet can also be used for instant messaging (texting) or even Voice over Internet Provider (VoIP) which allows live video/audio conversations with people across the internet at other computers or even telephones.

Web Browsers / Internet Browsers

A Web Browser is a type of software that retrieves and presents information resources on the internet. The information resource can be text, image, sound, video, or other type of content.

In a simple way, we can describe a web browser as a type of software that we use to ‘surf’ the internet.

These are some examples of web browsers, each with their own plus and minuses:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Google Chrome
 

Search Engines

A search engine is designed to search for information on the internet. Search engine presents the search results in the form of a search results list. The search results can be web pages, images, videos, and other type of files.

To gather and present the searched information, each search engines has their own algorithm, or combination of algorithmic and human input.

Google.com is currently the most popular and frequently used search engine.