There IS help available. There are several, and each does its job differently.
Directories are good at identifying general information.
The results of your search will be a list of that cover the subject you are searching for. If you want more specific information, use an Index . These look at all the pages of all the web sites and index the contents. Popular indexes are AltaVista, WebCrawler, and Lycos. They find individual pages of a web site that match your search, even if the site itself has nothing to do with what you are looking for.