Faster Searching the Web is a lot like life. Some days you find all the answers, and some days you can't buy a clue with a million dollars. I can't change your life, but I hope to change the quality of your searching with a few tips.
Catalogs are ideal for broad category searches of established sites.
For narrow, nitty-gritty searching of all Web sites, a search engine is your tool of choice. A search engine is based on an abstract of the contents of millions of Web sites. Some, like Infoseek, AltaVista, and Excite cover the full text of many pages. Others are based only on headers and page titles. But just because you know how to navigate Yahoo like a pro doesn't mean you know how to use all the other Web catalogs and search engines.