Information is the cornerstone of the development of a person, social group, and society as a whole. In modern conditions, information plays a key role in all spheres of the national economy, and its timely search and analysis is fundamentally important. The mass of information on the Internet includes data that meet various (sometimes paradoxical) user requests and, at the same time, when accessing virtual resources, the key problem is often the redundancy of links and the difficulty of finding information that is strictly relevant to the user’s request. The article provides an overview of approaches to organizing the search for necessary information in the continuum of the information space; it is emphasized that success in finding the necessary information is determined by two main factors (conditions): the correct, clear formulation of the search query and knowledge of search engines and search tools.