Heavy Online Usage During Crisis

Written by Rob Spiegel


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Search engines reported a surge in attack-related queries

Not surprisingly, search engines were hit hard by consumers searching for information onrepparttar disaster. The popular search engine, Google, reported that searches for news-related sites increased 60 times over normal levels on September 11. Within an hour ofrepparttar 119061 second airliner hittingrepparttar 119062 WTC, Google received more than 6,200 queries for CNN in one minute. Google quickly established an "American Under Attack" section, which collectedrepparttar 119063 top ten search queries, including CNN, World Trade Center, BBC, Pentagon, MSNBC, Osama bin Laden, Nostradamus, American Airlines, FBI and Barbara Olsen. Barbara Olsen isrepparttar 119064 Fox News commentator who was aboardrepparttar 119065 airplane that hitrepparttar 119066 Pentagon.

Scores of tech executives were lost inrepparttar 119067 disaster

A high number of high tech and Internet executives were lost on September 11. Many were in their offices onrepparttar 119068 high floors ofrepparttar 119069 World Trade Center, while others were aboardrepparttar 119070 airliners that were hijacked. As my day job, I'm a senior editor at Electronic News, one ofrepparttar 119071 many trade publications published by Cahners Business Information. Two of our executives, Jeff Mladenik and Andrew Curry Green, were on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles,repparttar 119072 first plane to hitrepparttar 119073 WTC. Both men worked for eLogic,repparttar 119074 Cahners company that produces Web sites forrepparttar 119075 company's publications.



Rob Spiegel is the author of Net Strategy (Dearborn) and the upcoming Shoestring Entrepreneur's Guide to Internet Start-ups (St. Martin's Press). You can reach Rob at spiegelrob@aol.com


Internet Terminology

Written by Bonnie Jo Davis


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IP Address: The Internet Protocol Address that is assigned to every computer.

ISP: Internet Service Provider – a company that provides internet and e-mail access.

Link: Another name for a hyperlink.

Listserv: An electronic mail list usually delivered by e-mail that concentrates on one topic.

Login: The use of an assigned name and password to access a web site or web page.

Lurking: Reading discussion group or list serv messages before participating. This is recommended behavior so that you can fully understandrepparttar topic andrepparttar 119060 people participating before you join in.

Mail Server: A computer that hold and transmits e-mail messages.

Mailing List: Similar to a Listserv or newsgroup. You give permission to join and will be mailed messages from other members typically concentrating on one topic.

Meta Tags: Special code inrepparttar 119061 programming of a web site that tells search engines how to index a certain web page. Types of Meta Tags include page name, title, keywords and description.

Network: A system of connected computers exchanging information with each other. A LAN is a local area network that is usually connected together in one office or building and a WAN is a wide area network that is connected in more than one office or building.

Newbie: A new user of any medium such asrepparttar 119062 internet, newsgroups, e-mail, etc.

Newsgroup: Similar to a discussion group usually concentrating on one topic.

Newsreader: Usually provided with your e-mail program and allows you to view and participate in discussions.

Online: When you are connected torepparttar 119063 internet.

Page: A single page on a web site.

Post: To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup.

Refresh/Reload: Used by your browser to check for updates to a web site page that may be stored on your computer.

Resource Box: A by-line for authors. Usually atrepparttar 119064 end of an article.

Robot (also Spider): A program that automatically searchesrepparttar 119065 World Wide Web for files.

Search Engine: A tool for finding information onrepparttar 119066 internet such as Webcrawler.

Shareware: Free software usually downloaded fromrepparttar 119067 internet.

Signature: A file created by you that is added torepparttar 119068 end of all your e-mail messages giving information about you and your business. Also know as a “sig file.”

Site: A single or collection of related Web pages.

SPAM: Unwanted and sometimes illegal messages sent to you usually promoting a get rich quick scheme or pornography. Spider (also Robot): A program that automatically searchesrepparttar 119069 World Wide Web for files.

Subscribe: To become a member of a newsgroup, listserv, internet provider service, etc.

Thread: A group of messages on one topic.

Unsubscribe: To resign as a member of a newsgroup, listserv, internet provider service, etc.

Upload: Copying a file from your local computer to a remote computer.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator -repparttar 119070 method by which Internet sites are addressed.

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