Robert Bell Parrish Medical Library
Search - Search the Internet

Subject Directories

• Librarian's Index.
• Internet Public Library.
• Wikipedia
• Government & Statistics
• Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center

Search Engines

• About.com
• Google
• Alta Vista
• Northern Light
• FastSearch
• Hotbot
• Excite
• Lycos
• Yahoo!.   Also see Yahoo! en Espanol
• Yellow Pages

Metasearch Engines

• Dogpile
• Metacrawler
• Turbo10

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Subject directories are selective and usually  well-organized.  Search engines are larger and more comprehensive.  Metasearch engines return a small percentage of results found in multiple search engines.

For an in-depth introduction to searching on the Internet, see UC Berkeley's Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial.

SEARCH HINT:

To search for a phrase in most search engines, type phrase in "quotation marks."