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What can you learn about the web site information from the URL?

.dot what?. What can you learn about the web site information from the URL?. What is the URL ?. Every Web site has it own unique address, called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). The format for a URL is standardized worldwide, and will look something like this:

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What can you learn about the web site information from the URL?

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  1. .dot what? What can you learn about the web site information from the URL?

  2. What is the URL ? • Every Web site has it own unique address, called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). • The format for a URL is standardized worldwide, and will look something like this: • This Internet address, or URL, is made up of several parts, divided by a slash(/) : For example: http://www.nasa.gov/visitors.html protocol domain file name

  3. What is the domain ? • Thedomain name can give you a lot of information about the type of information you might expect on a web site, and is unique for every web site. • The domain name usually has 3 main sections after the www, separated by dots. For example:www.zu.ac.ae This first part is the name of the organization which created the website, e.g. Zayed University Next is the type of organization – this is VERY important! Last is the country code, e.g. ae=UAE or uk=United Kingdom

  4. What types of organizations are there? • .edu or .ac • .com or .co • .org • .gov • .net • Education or Academic such as a university • Commercial e.g. bbc.co.uk • Non-profit organization e.g. unesco.org • Government • Network (or hub) • Purpose is to educate: reliable information • Purpose is to sell: some good information • Purpose is varied: some good information • Purpose is to inform: reliable but biased info. • Purpose is varied: not necessarily reliable info. What will you see in the URL? What does this stand for? What is the purpose of this website?

  5. .dot what? So, what web information is best for an academic assignment? … your turn now!

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