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pls help me to understand this computer terms,URL,IP address,Domain Name,HOstin,Search Engine.?

guys please help me to undersand this computer term... URL,IP address,Domain Name,HOstin,Search Engine. im so confuse with it in a very technical deffinition... please explain it to me in very clear terms.. hope guys you can help me.. thank you very much for helping those who need your knowlege. godbless guys..

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1. url is the web address, eg. www.yahoo.com domain is the same, a web address, e.g, www.yahoo.com Hosting is a service that keeps your website online search engine, eg, google or yahoo search, used to search for anything such as information
2. Suggest you go to www.wikipedia.org and type in the terms. Full expalnation would exceed the space given for the answer.
3. URL - web address eg. http://www.yahoo.com IP Address - the address assigned a computer that lets it communicate on a network. Your Internet provider gives your computer an IP address, which lets it connect to the Internet through their system Domain - A group of networked computers that share a common communications address. Sometimes indicating the type of organization, geographical location, or both, and officially designated in the suffix, .com. .gov, .org Hosting - the service or provider that puts or hosts pages/sites on the Internet. Search Engine - a website or program that lets users search for information on the Internet using keywords. (Side note - when you use a search engine like google or yahoo, you are not actually searching the Internet but rather a copy of the Internet stored on a huge network of computers. The copy is made by programs called spiderbots that roam the web finding new web pages and copying them and taking the copies back to their main computer system)
4. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) > the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web, it indicate where to find that particular document on the web. Its what you enter on the address bar of your web browser. IP (Internet Protocol) address > An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network; it uniquely identifies from what network or group of computers it came from. Domain Name > is the name of the group of computers that uses the same rules and guidelines in the internet. Hostin > provides access on the internet by providing user needed space to store information that supports their web needs. Search Engine > a program that helps user find information in the net using keywords provided by the user.
5. 1. url is the address of a web site like http://www.yahoo.com. url address will include the parameters or folder of a domain / sub domain like answers.yahoo.com/question.... the difference with domain is that domain is the only name for a web site. like www.yahoo.com, www.mydomain.net etc 2. ip address is the address of a computer within a network (like 192.168.0. 50). a computer interacts using this address to identify the target computer. 3. domain name look at the point 1 4. hosting is a space to host your web files for a domain.. let's say you have a web site with domain www.mydomain.com. you will put your files into the hosting identified with your domain name. 5. search engines are web applications that index pages published in the internet. you will not find a page using a searh engine if the search engine has not index your page. 6. sorry my english is not so good.. lol