You discover that one of the newsgroups with the most articles about fonts is comp.fonts . AltaVista has its own Usenet archive with different search capabilities than Deja News, but it doesn't archive as many groups and it only holds its archives for a few months. Lycos and Infoseek link to Deja News to offer Usenet search capabilities to their users. Surfing You need more than Usenet and WWW search skills to get the most from the Net. Learn to surf.
Many search engines have subject-classified annotated URL lists for various subject areas.
Use this technique when you find a really helpful page. Many times the home page will lead you to other interesting pages on the site and, if you're lucky, a page full of links to similar sites. This quick spin through search engine features cannot begin to cover the capabilities of search engines. Each search engine has a different way of locating Web sites, a different method of indexing those sites, a different search technique, and different commands. Read the help files for the search engines you use and take a peek at Greg Notess' Search Engines Showdown .