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A website (or web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via the Internet or a private local area network.

A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page may incorporate elements from other web sites with suitable markup anchors.

Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content. The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.

All publicly accessible web sites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

The pages of a web site can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site.

Some web sites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription sites include many business sites, parts of many news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based e-mail, services, social networking web sites, and sites providing real-time stock market data.

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NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians

NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.


White House opens Web site programming to public

Technology / Internet

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing.


Congress weighs landmark change in Web ad privacy

Technology / Internet

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

(AP) -- The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, the personal details we reveal on social networking pages - all of this can give companies ...


IBM Makes It Easier To Browse Web Sites On Mobile Devices (w/ Video)

The visual editor: IBM Makes It Easier To Browse Web Sites On Mobile Devices (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM researchers have created technology, initially developed for visually-impaired users, that makes it simpler for Webmasters to make their Web sites more readable on the small screens of mobile devices, ...


Report: Widespread data sharing, 'Web bugs'

Report: Widespread data sharing, 'Web bugs'

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information released a report late Monday (June 1) showing that the most popular Web sites in the United States all share ...


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Google's CO2 Emissions: Some Puff, Lies & Good Old Fashion Hype

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- A January 11, 2009 article in the London Times (on-line version) entitled, Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches quoted Harvard Physicist, Alex Wissner-Gross that "two Google ...


Web sites cater to for-sale-by-owner home sellers

Technology / Internet

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task.


Majority of teens discuss risky behaviors on MySpace, studies conclude

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children's Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, researchers found that 54 percent of adolescents freque ...


Researchers Skeptical of Claims by Online Dating Sites

Technology / Internet

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

With an estimated 40 percent of the 100 million U.S. singles trying online dating, researchers at the University of Arkansas caution users that some Web sites’ claims of scientific justification may be “junk science.”


Review: Password management eases with Net storage (AP)

Review: Password management eases with Net storage

Technology / Internet

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess.


Yahoo jazzes up home page with major makeover (AP)

Yahoo jazzes up home page with major makeover

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its Web site's home page with a long-promised makeover that is supposed to make it easier to see what's happening at the Internet's other hot spots.


Newspaper sites draw 36 percent of Web audience in June

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing about 36 percent of all Internet users, according to a new Nielsen Online study commissioned by an industry trade group.


Tech 101: How a denial-of-service attack works (AP)

Tech 101: How a denial-of-service attack works

Technology / Internet

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Investigators are piecing together details about one of the most aggressive computer attacks in recent memory - a powerful "denial-of-service" assault that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean ...


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UK court rejects suit on Google search results

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A British judge has ruled that Google cannot be held responsible for defamatory words that appear in results on the popular Internet search engine.


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Yahoo sets out to regain analysts' respect

Technology / Business

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- With its stock in a three-year funk, Yahoo Inc. set out Wednesday to persuade investors that the Internet company's struggles are nearly over.