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Unit 6: Searching for your hobbies
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What’s it all about?
If you have a broadband internet
connection, it is now possible catch up with
programmes you have missed during the
past seven days and watch or listen to them
free of charge on your computer.
 They are sent to your computer using a
technology called streaming.
 Most modern PCs have the software that
you need to view or listen to streamed
video or sound, but if yours does not you
will be able to download it free from the
websites that provide the programmes.
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Remember:
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To explore the World Wide Web you use a web
browser, often called simply a browser.
The browser displays a single web page; you
move around the Web by following hyperlinks.
These are codes embedded in web pages which
link to other web pages or other parts of the page
that you are viewing.
The mouse pointer normally appears as an arrow
As you move the pointer around the screen you
will see it change to a pointing finger.
You have located a hyperlink. Click the left mouse
button once and a new page, or a different part of
the page, will be displayed.
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Surfing
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Moving between web pages like this is called
“surfing”.
Hyperlinks can be located in any part of a web
page. In a well-designed web page the location of
the hyperlinks will be clearly indicated, by
underlined text, or via other clues: arrows,
"menus", “tabs", or descriptive text within the
page. Hyperlinks may also be embedded in
images.
Surfing the World Wide Web is a superb way of
researching and enjoying your hobbies. You
should be able to find everything you need –
pictures, sounds, text, groups to join, ways of
sharing information, places to buy from etc.
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Google searches
If you search the web using Google, you
will see ‘results’ like this:
 Results Page(s)
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Google searches
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Search Box: You can change the search for
better results.
The number of results, or hits. A search like
“holidays scotland” gets a lot of hits!
Sponsored Links: Companies pay Google to
display advertising links either at the top or side
of each page.
Each hit shows the text that matched your
search and the URL and name of the page. Click
on the underlined text or the web address (e.g.
www.visitscotland.com) to view the page.
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More pages
At the bottom of the page you will see links
to more pages of hits and suggestions for
other searches you could try.
 Click on Next to go to the next page of hits.
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Other websites to explore
Answers.com
Ask a question and this site will search for the
www.answers.com
answer on the web.
Turboscout
This website lets you try your search on lots of
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search engines. The results can be very
different!
Yahoo!
Google’s main competitor as a search engine.
http://uk.yahoo.com
Unlike Google, which has a very plain style,
Yahoo has lots of things going on.
Decide which suits you best.
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YouTube
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A fantastic place to pursue your hobbies is
found at www.youtube.com.
YouTube is a video sharing website on
which users can upload and share videos.
It contains a wide variety of usergenerated video content, including movie
clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as
amateur content such as video blogging
and short original videos.
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Have a go!
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Enter the web address www.youtube.com
in the address bar of your browser; this is
what you will see:
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Enter something in the Search box and
away you go!
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Wikipedia
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Another excellent place to pursue your hobbies is found
at www.wikipedia.org.
Wikipedia (pronounced WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a free,webbased, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project
supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia's 13 million articles (three million in the English
Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by
volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It is
currently the largest and most popular general reference
work on the Internet. If you do pretty much any Google
search, the top entry in the search results is very likely to
be a Wikipedia page.
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Have a go!
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Enter the web address www.wikipedia.org
in the address bar of your browser; this is
what you will see:
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Click on your language, enter something in
the Search box and away you go!
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