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Links to Kids Search Engines

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Below are links to some of the search engines available for finding information on the World Wide Web. For everything you want to know about search engines (guides, reviews, trivia, traffic, etc.) go to Search Engine Watch.

While each search engine has variations, generally you simply click in a dialog box, type the word(s) you are trying to locate, then click a button called "search."

To search newspapers and periodical sources, check out E-Library.

Search Engines For Kids	Topical Search Engines
Ask Jeeves for Kids is a search engine that lets you ask plain English questions to search sites and, after confirming your question, returns a link to one page that answers your question.	Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is maintained by an educator in Massachusetts who keeps hundreds of links organized and updated by topic.
Yahooligans was rated tops by kid users in the August 1997 issue of FamilyPC for its kid-friendly organization and content.	eBLAST is Encyclopedia Britannica's search engine for both its editor-selected World Wide Web sites and for links to Encyclopedia Britannica on-line.
AOL NetFind for Kids provides another source for kid-organized and -friendly web pages.	Yahoo! is strong in its topical organization. (Useful when you don't know a specific search term, but have a general idea of what you are looking for.)
Magellan also provides kid-friendly sites if you click the Green Light sites only button in the top right corner of the window under the search button.	Scholastic Network Web Guide provides search capabilities to its carefully selected links to useful web sites.
KidsClick! provides a selection of librarian-tested pages that are useful for young users to seek information via a search engine and topical links. This is a non-commercial site created by staff at the Ramapo Catskill Library System in California.	Yanoff's [Topical] Internet Services List Scott Yanoff was one of the early pioneers in maneuvering the Internet. Not a search engine per se, this is a topical list from an expert on web browsing.
Multiple Search Engines	Individual Search Engines
ZeekSearch allows you to select up to 30 search engines to find sites that include your search term(s). Results are filtered by SurfWatch. Highlights include searches of NPR, PBS, and CNN. The NPR results are RealAudio recordings from Morning Edition and All Things Considered news and commentary broadcasts.	AltaVista won best of InternetWorld Magazine's December 1997 test. It searches 100 million pages.
KidSafe ProFusion allows you to search up to six sites that filter inappropriate content: Family Magazine, Magellan Green Light, AOLKids, KidNG, avFamilyFilter, and SearchOPolis.	HotBot placed second in InternetWorld Magazine's December 1997 test. It searches 54 million pages.
Cyber411 provides simultaneous access to 16 search engines then returns results without duplicating responses. Search engines used are Altavista, Dejanews, Excite, Galaxy, GoTo, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, Magellan, PlanetSearch, Search.com, Snap, Thunderstone, WebCrawler, What-U-Seek, and Yahoo.	Infoseek placed third in InternetWorld Magazine's December 1997 test. It searches 60 million pages.
The Internet Sleuth provides access to hundreds of search engines arranged by category in the left frame, or in the right frame it will search up to six search engines simultaneously and provide the results from each.	Ask Jeeves is a search engine that allows you to ask a plain English question that will return a link to a site that will answer your question.
Beaucoup! is a master list of search engine pages. The Big List provides links to most search engines available on the World Wide Web.

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