resource

A resource is a source of information about a particular topic. For example, books are called resources because of the information they contain. One naming scheme used to locate resources on the web is called the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A very popular resource on the web are the search engines like Yahoo, WebCrawler, Lycos and others because they maintain database lists, indexes and pointers to other resources on the web.

URLs:

Yahoo

Yahoo's search engine resource

WebCrawler

WebCrawler's search engine resource

Print Resources:

• World Wide Web Unleashed, Second Edition. John December and Neil Randall. Sams.net. Indianapolis. 1995. (ISBN 0-672-30737-5)

W3E References:

URL

Yahoo

WebCrawler