Part 5. Using the World Wide Web
The technologies that underpin the World Wide Web—such as HTML, hypertext, and so on—are remarkable things, as you’ve seen in Part 4, “How the World Wide Web Works.” But the true point of the Web isn’t its underlying technologies. Instead, it’s how those technologies are put to use.
In this section of the book, you’ll look in detail at some of the most interesting uses of the Web, everything from how Google works to how mapping sites work, and how so-called wikis work.
Chapter 27, “How Internet Searching Works,” examines Internet search engines. The Internet contains such a vast amount of information ...
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