The Internet

Description or Defining. The Internet, or 'net, is a vast network of computers that connects many of the world's businesses, institutions, and individuals. The Internet is composed of many parts, including the World Wide Web, FTP, IRC, Newsgroups, Gopher, WAIS, Archie, and of course, Electronic Mail (Email).The Internet is in many cases is mainly used for communication. Email is the most heavily used resource of the Internet- over 40 million email messages are sent through …

…the Web a day, a very good index is hard to keep, and an alphabetical listing of millions of web pages would be almost impossible to navigate through. To help this problem, people developed search engines that search the Web for you. Some search engines, like Yahoo, search in a big web directory they have made of hundreds of thousands of web pages that is organized like a phonebook. Other search engines, like Google, or