Blog Tipz

A post at The Unofficial Google Blog recently caught my attention. When you think of the web browser, you are supposed to think of a piece of software that allows you to connect to the Internet and see websites as they were designed to be seen. The most popular Internet browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera, with hundreds of other versions, many of which branch off or integrate features of the main ones.

The Internet, in its current form, has been around for approximately twenty years. Simply because you set your default website to Google doesn’t mean that it powers the entire web, although some people are led to believe that it does, and that you can’t access sites from anywhere beyond Google. In terms of building your site, it would likely be a lot nicer if more people wrote down, memorized, or bookmarked your site for visiting later, but in most cases, it is through search engines that they find your content.

Although this experiment was rather unofficial, it might still be echoed in more official surveys. A web browser is not Google or any other search engine.

In review, here’s the difference between the two.

• Web Browser: The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser’s Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. The home page is an index to other pages on that site that you can jump to by clicking an underlined hyperlink or an icon. Links on that site may take you to other related sites.
• Search Engine: A website whose primary function is providing a search engine for gathering and reporting information available on the Internet or a portion of the Internet.