The Best Search Engines According to Me
General Search Engines
#1 – Google.com – Excellent site. Easy, fast, all I need is there. Type it in and go. Convenience is what made me choose this site as my favorite.
#2 - alltheweb.com - Nice set up. Categories are a plus. Easy to use. Each listing has a great description telling you what the website has. Some of the first entries listed are not relevant. Lots of choices on the first page. Similar to Google. Like it!
MetaSearch engines - *note – did not care for these sites at all!
#1 – dogpile.com – This search engine was the most efficient and helpful. It helped me pinpoint what I was looking for. Various choices.
#2 - KidFusion MetaSearch - http://www.profusion.com/kidfusion.html - Though it is a search engine with a filter, it was easy to use, clear and concise.
Image search engines
#1 – Google.com – Again, google made the searches quick and easy which are 2 plusses for this site. Had many choices for various images. I used this site to find graphics for many of the projects I did in this class.
#1 – Ask Jeeves kids - http://www.ajkids.com/ - Nice looking homepage, very easy to use. Kid and parent friendly. Supplies games, study help and news resources.
#2 - Kids Click - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ - Many choices. May be confusing to younger kids. This is why it came in second. Can choose the reading level. Pretty fast.
Government Search Engines
#1 - http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.government.html - Excellent site. Many different types of governmental information to chose from. Very nice and clean. Easy to use.
#2 - http://www.nwbuildnet.com/nwbn/gov_search.html - had several different types of searches on one homepage. Laid out nicely. Page guide was handy. Easy to use.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/juarezm/Search%20Engines.html - A-Z search engines - nice site to use - helpful
Greek Mythology - 9th grade LS Skills for Reading Class
Google.com (search engine) - #1 in search engines
Excellent site. easy, fast, all I need is there. type it in and go.
www.mythweb.com/
messagenet.com/myths
www.greekmythology.com/
homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/
www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/greek_myth.html
www.cultures.com/greek_resources/greek_encyclopedia/ greek_encyclopedia_home.html
mythman.com/
www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/5545/
dogpile.com
dogpile searches these sites: google, ask jeeves, looksmart,inktomi, About, Findwhat, Fast (metaSearch engine)
Came upon lots of books to buy, mythology papers to sell, and musical plays
asked if i was looking for several different topics, helped pinpoint what I wanted to look for. For example, Greek myths, Greek mythology pictures, Greek gods, etc. Not as helpful as fast as google.com.
Teoma.com (search engine)
139,900 choices shows 1 -10 on first page - many same as google.com One had Roman mythology and not Greek. One website was linked to Princeton. Too difficult for my 9th grade LS reading kids. Many different links and other choices on the side (link collections from experts and enthusiasts). Liked how it was set up.
www.mythweb.com/
www.greekmythology.com/
web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/index.html
www.messagenet.com/myths/
www.loggia.com/myth/myth.html
Surfwax.com metaSearch engine
Liked the opening page. After search the page is too “busy” . There is a lot of info right there. takes away from what you need. too many choices for some LS kids. Not enough info under the topic to be able to choose a link easily. Lots of choices. displaying 64 out of 465,000 pages found. thumbs down. don’t like it at all
copernic.com metaSearch engine
had to download - too much time and energy when there are free and fast engines out there. again, lots of extra information provided. took me a few seconds to figure out download was needed. was looking for where to type in my search.
KidFusion MetaSearch
-
http://www.profusion.com/kidfusion.html - Searches
for best sites by running parallel screened searches on AVFamilyFilter,
Yahooligans, Magellan, Green Light, AOL Kids, Searchopolis, and
InfoSeekKids.
Ask Jeeves - http://www.ajkids.com/ - own site for kids – parents can “peek” at what is being talked about on this search engine, study tools available on right side in many subjects. Very good!
Kids Click
-
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ Click on the Advanced
Search to limit search to a specific reading level.
alltheweb.com
nice set up. categories are a plus. easy to use. each listing has a great description telling you what the website has. some of the first entries listed are not relevant. lots of choices on the first page. like it! similar to google.
corbis.com image search engine
stock photography and pictures
3 topics - imagery, services, company
ok site
nice homepage
easy to type in search
gives images but does not really label them- don’t know what i am looking at right away
lets you enlarge the photo
need more refined search ie - apollo or hermes
paintings and sculptures etc.
arribavista.com - image search engine
gives you top sites for images
put in greek mythology images and came up sorry, no results
http://www.1stopstock.com/ image search engine
good homepage
easy to use
cursor set up so all you do is type in search
tried greek mythology nothing was found
tried searching just mythology and some thumbnails came up - have no clue what they are without clicking on each
lots of unknown symbols under each thumbnail - don’t know what they do.
tried specific greek god, hermes, not found
unsure what search to use out of 3 choices,
gives options when not found on how to possibly find it
www.scour.com image search engine
took a little while to load – did not care for it.
http://www.nwbuildnet.com/nwbn/gov_search.html - had several different types of searches on one homepage. Laid out nicely. Page guide was handy. Easy to use. Use these fast and subject-specific government search engines to find information about the government, IRS documents, US Law Code and OSHA regulations, etc.
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.government.html - took a little
while to load. Over 1,000 fully specialized search engines
within 50 categories
are waiting to assist you, no matter what you're looking for.
Various choices. Interesting choices of each type of search engine. Very good.
http://www.govspot.com/shortcuts/searchengines.htm - nice set up. Lots of information and choices to choose from. May be more difficult for students to use. Gives various choices of other governmental search engines.
http://www.refdesk.com/govsrch.html – Yuck! Very plain and boring. Not much info could be found. Only Congressman and IRS info. Boring!