| which is our actual speed of connexion to Internet? We have a nominal speed on our contract, but this varies according to the hour and the day, the path... With this page you will know the speed of transfer of information with which you can download the Internet contents. |
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| This page serves the same purpose but it is much more complete, here we get the download speed as well as the upload speed (the speed with which we send our mails and files).
If you want to know the speed of connexion within the country, select this country on the box "Seleccione el país" (e.g. España); if what you want is to check the speed of connection from your country to a server located abroad (e.g. Estados Unidos), select this one on the box. |
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| Nowadays, the most used search engine in the web is: GOOGLE: The searchers work with a robot called spider, o crawler, which automatically and constantly visit Internet sites and follow its hyper-links to create catalogs of Web pages. When we ask for some information, they review these catalogs and give us a list of pages which contain that information. We can also ask searchers to do a specific search for IMAGES (pictures or drawings) |
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| El second searcher in popularity is: YAHOO. |
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| And this is the searcher from Microsoft: MSN. |
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| Here is a new searcher, of european scope: the SEEKPORT, which has developed country specific versions. The search can be done by choosing one european language, or in all languages. And also like Google, it allows the search in all 4 languages in Spain. |
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We have also the option to use a meta-searcher, this is , a program with the capability to look into more than one searcher at a time, presenting then the results after elimination of the duplicates. Here is the link to meta-searcher META-CRAWLER. |
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| The Directory is an alternative form to look for information in Internet: In this system, a person has previously done an objective classification of the subjects by cathegories, and therefore it is easier to find related informations. The most known directory is DMOZ Open directory project. |
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| In this Tinet page we find some of the most popular software programs, including free of charge ones and demos. Among them we find antivirus, text processors, and graphic design programs. |
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| Free software, as searched by Google. |
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| Free software, as searched by ya.com. |
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