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How to Search the Web
Guessing URLs
If you're looking for a corporation or institute, start by guessing once or twice what its URL might be. Businesses spend a lot of money to have an obvious and easy-to-guess URL, for exactly this reason. If you guess wrong, you'll be told "URL not found."
How to Guess
1. Assume the URL starts with "www."
2. End the URL with the correct suffix, as indicated below.
.edu = educational institutions (www.harvard.edu)
.com = commercial businesses (www.nike.com)
.org = non-commercial organizations (www.pbs.org)
.gov = government organizations (www.whitehouse.gov)
.uk, .ca, .nl = other countries have their own suffixes (.uk - United Kingdom, .ca - Canada, .nl - Netherlands)
Try guessing the following URLs. Click on them to see if you're correct.
 Microsoft's Web site
The Internal Revenue Service's Web site
Ohio State University's Web site
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