Legal Definitions - Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is a web address that tells your computer where to find a specific webpage or file on the internet. It's like a street address for the internet.

For example, the URL for the homepage of Google is:

https://www.google.com/

This URL tells your computer to use the HTTPS protocol to connect to the server at www.google.com and retrieve the homepage file.

Another example is the URL for the Wikipedia page on the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

This URL tells your computer to use the HTTPS protocol to connect to the server at en.wikipedia.org and retrieve the page for the United States article.

Overall, a URL is a way to locate and access specific resources on the internet, whether it's a webpage, image, video, or any other type of file.