13. Browsing and Searching the Web

In This Chapter

• Understanding the Web

• Using Microsoft Edge

• Using Google Chrome

• Searching the Web with Google

• Using Wikipedia for Research

• Searching—and More—with Cortana

Now that you’ve connected to the Internet, either at home or via a public wireless hotspot, it’s time to get busy. The World Wide Web is a particular part of the Internet with all sorts of cool content and useful services, and you surf the Web with a piece of software called a web browser.

Windows includes its own web browser, called Microsoft Edge, but you can use other browsers if you like, such as the popular Google Chrome.

Understanding the Web

Before you can surf the Web, you need to understand a little bit about how it works. ...

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