UNIT 3 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
Search Engines, Social media, and Blogging.
Search Engine (SE) is a software system designed to search information on the web. There are several search engines systems on the web: google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, ask.com, aol.com, and other lesser known such as Blekko.com and chacha.com. When you what to find information, you simply type in the keywords of the information that you are searching in a search box. The search results will be shown in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). The results are presented in a list with a mix of images, videos, files, and some web pages will also display an abstract. For example, if you want to find out information about an air ticket from Washington DC to Chicago, you simply type in the keywords and whole list with different…show more content… Social Media
Social media is a term used for applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Myspace, Instagram, etc. These internet applications allow users to create content and share ideas, interests , information via virtual communities or group of friends. For example, Facebook lets you create a personal account or business related account; once you create an account, you can share photos, videos, post comments and current activities with your friends.
“Social media is perceived as a Web 2.0 development, which is to say that it is founded on the concept of a user-driven, interactive Web. Blogs, message boards, and chat rooms provide an experience that could be described as social media” (“Social Media,” 2016).
Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and others use smartphones and tablet computers to create interactive platforms where individuals or businesses share, discuss, and modify content posted online.
