What is a browser?

July 20th, 2009 by [re-arrange] Leave a reply »

Methink I’m lucky enough to be someone who involved in the computer technical work, so this kind of question is just at a flick of my finger. However, watching this video makes me wonder whether this is ignorance at best, or is it just a success of Google marketing?

Just six facts to get things right:

1) Google is a company. It’s most popular product is Google Search Engine.

2) Google Search Engine is a web application – a big database of information being indexed at the back, and a simple portal-like interface in front. This is where you can input your keywords to search, and it will spit out all kind of information it has.

3) These information were crawled by Google “spider” / “crawler” / “indexer”. These are agents which go to websites, and then indexed the content in the website for certain keywords. So, these are what controls your SERP.

4) SERP is Search Engine Result Page.

5) Google Search Engine is not a browser. But you can run / execute / open Google Search Engine in a browser.

6) A browser is a software application to be used to open / run / execute web application. Examples of browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome.

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13 comments

  1. miss_aszni says:

    gile browser pon xtau..
    cbe kau try wat research cmtu kt sni..
    tgok diorang tau beza tak browser dengan search engine..
    hehehehe..

  2. kinkin says:

    hahahhahaa!

    susahlah bila budak sama course dah bergabung!
    weeeeee~~!!

  3. [re-arrange] says:

    mamau: i’ll bet we’ll get a more or less same answer.

    kinkin syg: haha ape yg susah? tongue

    sendoh: yep. in a way methink Google has achieved another milestone, branding their name as a browser tongue

  4. dueng says:

    hoho. aku pulak rasa cam nak terjun bangunan bila orang tatau browser tu apa. i mean, come on…you use it almost everyday or at least see people using it yet you dunno about it. it’s like asking what the different between CRT and LCD tv different for people who watch TV every single day.

    no wonder lots of people fall into scheme cause they just don’t bother to understand things or at least inquisitive about it. curious mind, curious mind!

    on the other hand, yeah….Google is so powerful, it even could be translated as browser instead of search engine.

  5. crtlcd says:

    terjun le bangunan cepat2, biar cepat mampus. angkuh sungguh statement ko tu. lu pikir la beb

  6. mangifera says:

    LOL. terasa ke? lu pikir la beb. lu lagi angkuh beb sebab lu galakkan orang jadi ignorant. knowledge is power, beb. lu pikir la sendiri.

  7. pemerhati says:

    sabarlah kawan.. IMO, sy rase crtlcd tu x galakkan pn org jd ignorant.. he/she just said dueng nye statement tu mcm angkuh kot.. btw, personally sy rase ayat nk terjun bangunan tu mcm agak melampau la even bende tu mayb mcm jokes.. 1st impression when readin duengs comment, sy mcm dh bleh tau mcm mane personality dueng tu.. u know lah what i mean..

    tQ~

  8. xs says:

    err…sabar2..

    tahniah en adek.

  9. [re-arrange] says:

    yeay! tahniah untuk saya kerana berjaya mencetuskan pergaduhan kecil atas blog post yg tah hape2. HAHAHAHAHA.

    sile2 gaduh… sile2 komen byk2… tadek hal punye~ aku pedulik hape kan? tongue yang untungnya aku pasal blog post byk komen HAHAHAHAHA.

  10. dueng says:

    pemerhati: adeh…ye ke? aku berlagak ke? adeh….kena terangkan jugak la eh. bila aku cakap rasa cam nak terjun bangunan tu ialah rasa malu amat sangat. you been asking on tape tapi ko takleh jawab. malu beb. pastu satu dunia leh tahu ko bodoh, tak rasa cam nak terjun bangunan ke sebab malu? itu maksud aku. obviously, you not from my circle of fren.

    adeh…ni aku benci tulis ni. orang tak faham and mudah misinterpret. cuba jangan fikir lebih2 and take it as jokes boleh tak?

    like i said, kenapa mesti terasa dan being defensive kalau diri sendiri not in the group of mentioned people tu? are you have personal crusade against prick and jerks?

  11. Syud says:

    kinkin sayang?? wow!~

    did I miss something? :kohkoh

  12. [re-arrange] says:

    syud: err? miss apekah? :kohkoh

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