- Gopher servers have a mostly hierarchical menu structure, which is
easy to traverse.
- The menu items may explain what they are leading to (what's in the
submenu or document). But that explanation is very brief and may be
misleading.
- Menu items may refer to menus or documents on other servers,
but not necessarily to the root of those servers' hierarchy.
- Gopher servers return a MIME type for every menu item,
so one can avoid looking at documents of unwanted types.
Searching Gopher servers is possible through the
Veronica
service
(at gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu/11/veronica/).
All servers registered with the "Mother Gopher" in Minnesota
are searched, and also the servers they have links to.
Only menu items can be found, not documents.