 ASK.COM |
Ask.com offers many innovative tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily. |
| ASK FOR KIDS |
Best
either for locating a quick answer to a common question or as
a first step in exploring a fairly broad topic.
Recommended: Grades 2-9 Kid Friendly! |
| DITTO.COM |
Great
tool for locating images.
Recommended: Grades 3-12 Kid Friendly! |
| GROKKER |
From EdGate. Returns search results in a way that is more useful, and much easier to navigate than the usual list format. Grokker groups the results topically, and presents them in an interactive visual map. The Grokker map is easy to navigate and allows users to quickly get to relevant results. Highly recommended. |
| GOOGLE |
A
great search engine with lots of helpful options. Highly recommended. |
| HOTBOT |
Powerful,
easy-to-use menus, clean interface, and effective search routines.
From LYCOS |
| KIDS
CLICK! |
A
resource "for kids by librarians," with a collection
of sites chosen by professional librarians who sign up to be
reviewers.
Recommended: Grades K-6 Kid Friendly! |
| LITTLE
EXPLORERS |
A
picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully
chosen child-friendly sites around the world. The pictures are
links, helpful for early readers.
Recommended: Grades K-6 Kid Friendly! |
| METACRAWLER |
A
multi-threaded web search that searches many of these other search
engines. |
|
PICS4LEARNING |
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection. Kid Friendly! |
| VIVISIMO |
A
meta-search tool that searches sites like Google, Yahoo!, and
AltaVista and compiles the results in a useful fashion. Vivisimo
detects patterns in the results
and then groups them in folders of like topics. |
| YAHOO! |
A
very good subject-based search engine. Well known for its extensive
directory. |
| YAHOOLIGANS |
A
modified version of the extensive Yahoo! directory, with sites
selected especially for younger users.
Recommended: Grades 3-7 Kid Friendly! |
