You can hunt for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. Immediately, the search engine will arrange through the millions of pages it knows about and present you with ones that match your topic. The matches will even be ranked, so that the most appropriate ones come first. No doubt, the search engines don't always get it right. Irrelevant pages make it through, and sometimes it may take a little more digging to find what you are looking for. But, by and large, search engines do an amazing job.
As WebCrawler founder Brian Pinkerton puts it, "Imagine walking up to a librarian and saying, 'travel.' TheyÆre going to look at you with a blank face." Unfortunately, search engines don't have the ability to ask a few questions to focus your search, as a librarian can. They also can't rely on judgment and past experience to rank web pages, in the way humans can