Creating copies of this webpage in any form, media, or as a derivative work is strictly forbidden without advance permission from the authors. All rights reserved. Use a search engine. Unfortunately, most of us don't know how to use one well. Yet we often find nothing or get buried in a hundred-thousand useless websites.
Search engines are basically computer programs that make and maintain huge lists of information.
No human is directly involved in creating and maintaining the lists. To make matters worse, the people who create search engines aren't social workers and often have a crummy grasp of what we do. As a result, the larger popular databases often contain useful information but finding it can be very frustrating. Next, there are roughly five different types of search engines, and each has different characteristics. The specialized ones number in the thousands.