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.
Hint: To search for a phrase in most search engines, type phrase in “quotation marks.”
Subject Directories
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
Government and Statistics Resources
- Statistics
- MMWR – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Texas Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics
- Center for Disease Control
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics
- Childstats
- Health
- United States
- FedWorld Information Network Page – search for U.S. government information
- GPO Access including Federal Registerand other government publications
- THOMAS – U.S. Legislative Information
- Findlaw.com
- U.S. House
- U.S. Senate
- Census Bureau
- Federal Judiary Homepage – U.S. courts
- Internal Revenue Service – including IRS tax forms
- Consumer Information Center – provided by the U.S. Government
- Texas
- State of Texas Government Information
- Texas Legislature Online – Search for bills and laws.
- Texas Register
- Texas Administrative Code
Search Engines
- DuckDuckGo
- Alta Vista
- Northern Light
- FastSearch
- Hotbot
- Excite
- Lycos
- Yahoo!
- Yahoo! en Espanol
- Yellow Pages