You can learn more about both Netscape and Internet Explorer, download upgrades and find out about Internet email from their websites. Where you see underlined text, you can click on these words to link to another page or website. Often a website will have a site map, which is like a contents page or index, and is a useful way to get an overview of a website and go directly to the information you are interested in. Some large websites have a search function that allows you to search for a word or phrase within that website. Read the instructions to find out how to use a site's search function.
Search engines are websites that provide a means of searching the Internet for a particular subject.
Some of the bigger search engines are Yahoo , Altavista and for websites hosted in New Zealand, Search NZ . Try out a few search engines and then bookmark the ones you find easiest to use. A search engine will ask you to type in a word or phrase, and then it will return a list of sites that match your search. Some search engines will also allow you to refine a search, that is once it has come back with a page of results you can then search more specifically within those results. Generally if you have access to the Internet you will also have an email account, but you can have an email account without having your own World Wide Web access.