Knowing that this vast resource is available, how do we take advantage of it? Specifically, how can we find the information we want? What kinds of problems are best solved using the world wide web?
There are many types of communication available through the Internet. The world wide web in particular, is good at serving information. Look to the web when you want some kind of information that you think somebody has placed somewhere on the web. A more advanced user can also use the web as a publishing resource, to help place information into the public domain. In this class we are interested mainly in the first usage, searching for existing information.