Internet is very vast and it has vast number of software and has an ocean of information underneath. It is growing at the rate of 300% annually world wide. It is estimated that there are about 10 million Web sites world wide!
To search for an information you would use search engines like "Yahoo", "Netscape", "Lycos" etc. Go to Yahoo, click on search. Use filtering options to narrow down your search criteria. The default search action is "Intelligent search" which is more general and lists all possiblities. Click on "Options" to select "EXACT phrase" search, "AND" search, "OR" search, etc.. This way you would find the information you need much faster. Also in the search menu, there are radio-buttons for searching in Usenet, Web-sites and Yahoo sites.