ADMS 2511 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Internet Relay Chat, Web 2.0, Voice Over Ip

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: Cristobal Sanchez- Rodriguez

Document Summary

Network applications businesses use networks to improve their operations. Networks support businesses in functions like discovery, communication, collaboration, and web services. Discovery user can find all information on the web, however there is no quality control over information on the internet. The information can be overwhelming and doubles each year and is difficult to manage. Search engines, directories, and portals are used to make such tasks easier: search engines and metasearch engines it is a computer program that searches for specific information by keywords. It has billions of pages in its indices. They are created and updated by webcrawlers; computer programs that browse the web and create a copy of all visited pages. Metasearch engines search several search engines at once and integrate the findings: publication of material in foreign languages websites on the internet may be in different languages. Automatic translations services can help with the task of translation.