Best of
Search Engines
General Search Engines 
This
search engine is uncluttered and user friendly.
It offers quick search tabs for images, directories, and news. It also offers language translation tools. Searches produce useful and accurate
information.
www.google.com
This
search engine also offers great search results, especially if the user clicks
on advanced search. AltaVista offers a
family filter. It also contains great
language tools which provide the user with the tools to translate any website
into one of eight different languages.
www.altavista.com
Media Search Engines 
This
image search engine proved to be the most versatile of all image search engines. The user can specify everything from
color/b&w to sizes of images.
Results for this image search engine were accurate and did not provide
unnecessary hits.
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
This
audio search engine provides the user with multiple search options. The user can search by song title or
artist. The search engine displays both
partial and full song results. This is a
great tool to use before purchasing CD’s.
Results are accurate and do not require any special software to be
downloaded.
http://www.singingfish.com/
Kid Safe Search
Engines 
This kid
friendly site is a great place for all children to start a search. It provides accurate search results and also
prompts the child for spelling mistakes.
The sites appearance is non-cluttered, yet engaging for children. AJ Kids uses filters to block inappropriate
material.
http://www.ajkids.com/
This kid
friendly site is a great place for all children to start a search. It provides accurate search results and also
prompts the child for spelling mistakes.
The sites appearance is non-cluttered, yet engaging for children. Fact monster uses filters to block
inappropriate material. This site breaks
categories down by subjects studied in school.
This makes it easier for a child to search a topic specific to what they
are studying in school. This site used
to have too many pop-up adds, however, it looks like that issue has been
corrected.
http://www.factmonster.com/
News Search Engines 
This site
offers a non-cluttered page with updates every 5 minutes. Top stories are displayed in a prominent
location and the user has the opportunity to view multiple news categories with
the click of a mouse. This site also
provides local news.
http://news.google.com/
This site
offers a non-cluttered page. Each
article displays the date and time the news was added to the site. Top stories are displayed in a prominent
location and the user has the opportunity to view multiple news categories with
the click of a mouse. This site also
provides local news.
http://news.yahoo.com/
Shopping Search
Engines 
This search
engine offers comparison-shopping. After
typing an item in the search box, the user is presented with an accurate list
of items meeting his/her search criteria.
The search results are displayed in an easy to read grid format. The site also offers the user multiple ways
to sort results.
http://www.bizrate.com/
This site
offers accurate search results. This
shopping search engine has two great features.
Each item is given a star rating.
The star system rates the seller’s customer service. This site also offers a buyer protection
plan.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/