Surfing Without Drowning

Problems

World Wide Web
Easy to forget how you found something
Lots of circular paths

Heuristics

Find a good home page?
Leave bookmarks
Practice

Indexes

Yahoo, http://www.yahoo.com/
Excite, http://excite.com/
Alta Vista, http://altavista.digital.com/

Indexing

Trees
Key word search
Colaborative filtering (amazon.com)