Typing in a web address is great if you know the name of the site. Sometimes, it's worth typing in a guess, especially if you are looking for a very big company or organization. For example, IBM.com is going to take you right where you would expect it to. As we've gone through these lessons, you probably noticed that most of the web addresses made perfectly good sense. Taking a guess is a good way to start searching for something on the web. It's not foolproof, though. Fortunately, there are other ways to search for web sites.

Search Engines

A search engine is a web site that looks for other sites over the entire World Wide Web. . In most searches, you type in a few keywords that relate to your topic. The search engine will come up with some web sites that are likely to have the information that you want. There are different types of search engines for different tastes, and I will tell you about two of them in a few sections below. For now, you can start by hitting the SEARCH button on your browser. The search engine that appears depends on your browser and, possibly, your ISP.