Here we go again...this time six facts!

Wow, we are already working on Tutorial 3 and 4...this is exciting!

Three facts I learned from Tutorial 3 are as follows:

1). wildcard character - I have never heard of this before, the term seems very strange to me. It lets you omit part of a search term. When putting an asterisk as a wildcard character with a certain word, the search would come up with all Web pages that include the word you were searching for.

2). Web robot - this is a program, which searches for new Web sites and then updates old Web sites that are already in the database. Again, a very unique name! A Web robot also deletes information when a Web site does not exist any longer.

3). A metasearch engine - This type of search engine combines several search engines, which makes it easier for you to get the information that you are looking for. Most of the time, different search engines come up with different information, so in order to make searching faster for you, a metasearch engine searches several search engines at the same time so you don't have to!

Here are three facts I learned from tutorial 4:

1). white pages directories - This is something I really like. I am not a big fan of books and flipping pages, so to have access to the white pages online is really great! It collects all the names and information from published phone directories.

2). E-Zines - I never heard of an e-zine before, but it seems to be an online magazine. This does not require any subscribers, which makes it more and more popular. I will definitely look into this. E-zines have become a pretty popular place for publishing fiction.

3). JPEG - I know some of you will say, oh she never heard of JPEG before but that is not the case. I just didn't know what the acronym for JPEG was. Now I know, it is Joint Photographic Experts Group, which is a newer format of the GIF format. It can store more colors and has a much better quality on images.