Native alternative to wget in Windows PowerShell?

Question

I know I can download and install the aformentioned library (wget for Windows), but my question is this: In Windows PowerShell, is there a native alternative to `wget`?I need `wget` simply to retrieve a file from a given URL with HTTP GET. For instance: wget http://www.google.com/

Answer 1

invoke-webrequest -uri {website url} -outfile {filename}