On a separate page, I have collected various entry points for Australia including search engines and government entry points. There are commercial resources applicable to the study of the Internet. NetFirst , is produced by OCLC, and delivers bibliographic data to Internet resources. Further descriptions can be found from FirstSearch . No search will find everything.
Different tools suit different questions.
For many of us, searching the web is simply typing words into a search engine. This works until it doesn't, in which case we need something more. Contrary to myth, global search engines are not the best place to start most of the time - just some of the time. We should start thinking what tools excel at locating what kinds of webpages. The links on this page are arranged to follow this insight.