These pages offer a good guide to searching, but it's apparent that such tools, no matter how advanced, still can't keep up with the Internet. The amount of data, the rapidity of change, and the hectic web of links pulling it together make truly coherent, comprehensive organization nearly impossible. Here is a sampling of new approaches from the information industry. Using data on where other users who have visited a site have gone as well as link and text analyses of the site, Alexa dynamically suggests other links. You can search the NewsBot database of top news sites using an interface similar to a Web search screen.
Users apply to be Guides for subsites on specific topics.
Guides are responsible for the focus of their sites and for updating links and adding new ones. Find out how.