Searching for information on the WWW

Internet Explorer allows you to access vast quantities of information that has been placed on Web Sites all over the world.  To find information about a particular topic, you will need to use a Search Engine. 

Searching the Web can be very slow, particularly in the afternoon and early evening.  It is also easy to get sidetracked among so much information, so always allow plenty of time.

Click on the Search button on the Toolbar

This will open a small window to the left of your browser’s window. In here you can specify what it is you want to search for, whether you wish to find a web page, a person’s internet address, a business or to find a map.

Selecting one of the options and then entering a search term, (in this example I selected the Find a Web page option and entered the terms ‘Solar Wind’. This then produces a new search window displaying the results of your search. From here you can click on any of the results to go to that page or document.

You can search other sites for the same information by clicking on the down arrow by the Next button. This will bring up a list of the most popular search engines available at the time. This will carry out the same search (using the same terms) but using the selected search engine. To start a new search click on the New button which will take you back to the original search page as shown on the right here.