"link-hopping"
Link-hopping means hitting a link on a website to see where it takes you. Sometimes it's done randomly; at other times it's done with a weird kind of associational logic at work (since pages usually offer links to related sites).using a "search engine"
Basically, a search engine is a concordance of WWW addresses compiled either by 1) search engine employees who seek out websites and record their addresses according to subject or keyword, or 2) by people sending information on their websites to said search engine systems -- almost the same means by which individuals or businesses get their numbers in the Yellow Pages of phone books.Search engines usually follow a simple procedure: they ask users to enter a topic-word or keyword at a prompt; offer various modifications to that search (broadening or narrowing the field in much the same manner as a LUIS keyword search, or limiting the number of findings); and present their findings in the form of links.
NOTE: unless you set specific limits on your search parameters, search engines can produce thousands of results -- often including sites which either contain one or more of the terms used in your search, or are specifically programmed to appear when you enter other loosely-associated keywords ("sex," "fishing," "money," etc.).
Here are a few search engines to try (let me know of others you may have used, to add to this list):
Alta Vista
Maryanne says, "Ooh -- it's like a personal shopper!"
One quite nifty search engine (my fiancee Tina swears by it, and she uses it every day at her job) is Dogpile, which searches up to fifteen other search engines for you and displays their results.