FINDING and MANAGING INFORMATION

The search engine is a program used as a tool for finding information on the internet.
Here are some search engines are well known and widely used, among others:
1. Google (www.google.com)
Google was founded in 1998, and was founded by two friends from Stanford University. Google's main advantages are easy to use, compact layout, fast, can predict what users are looking for and have the facility to search for websites that have been lost.
2. Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
Yahoo is a search engine that uses the directory index. Yahoo starts from the collection of personal links Jerry Yang.
Yahoo has the advantage, that have large databases and to share the database with Google. If the word you are looking for is not available in Yahoo, the search will be conducted in the Google database. Another advantage is that all webmasters want for their websites listed in the Yahoo index.
3. Altavista (www.altavista.com)
AltaVista is a search engine founded by Digital Corp.. AltaVista has the advantage in the search cangih (Advanced searc) using noperator Boolean AND, OR, (), NOT, NEAR, ", AND *.
4. Lycos (http://lycos.com/)
Lycos created at Carnegie Mellon University in May 1994. Lycos is the oldest search engine. Lycos has the advantage easy to use and easy to find the websites listed at tripod.com
Google is a search engine most used by the percentage of approximately 29.5% of users. This was followed by approximately 28.9% Yahoo users. The third place is MSN that is used around 27.6%. AltaVista is in sixth position with the percentage of users around 4%, and Lycos were the seventh position with the percentage of users around 2%.

Managing Information from the Internet.
Opening a Web Page
Steps to open a Web page is as follows.
1. Select a Web page search results you want displayed.
2. Right-click on the text links from websites that want to display
3. On the menu that appears, click Open to open a web page in the current browser window or click Open in New Window to open a web page in a new browser window.
Saving Web Pages
The steps to save a web page is as follows:
1. From the File menu, click Save. Save Web Page dialog box is displayed.
2. Define a storage folder in the Save in box choices.
3. In the File name box, the browser will give the name of the file from a web page that will be saved automatically.
4. Click the Save button.
Copy and paste.
Steps to copied and paste.
1. Activate web pages to be copied.
2. Block all text that you want to copy.
3. From the Edit menu, click Copy, or click Ctrl + C on your keyboard.
4. Launch Word and create a new document.
5. In the Word window. From the Edit menu, click Paste (or click the Paste button on the Standard toolbar) or press Ctrl + V.
6. Keep the Word document.
Another advantage of storing information from the Internet by copying and pasting we can save the relevant information from multiple web pages within one document file.