Search Engines:

Tony’s Best of Page…

Below is a list of search engines that I feel as a teacher and internet explorer are the most useful. I have included five categories and they include: General, News, Travel, Images, and Kids. Depending on what you need to be searching, these are the best search engines for the job.

General

Google – If you want to find anything about everything google is my first choice.

You can even type in your name and find that information on you that you never knew even existed. Google provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy. I highly recommended it as a first stop in your hunt for whatever you are looking for.

http://www.google.com

AskGeeves – This is considered to be a “natural language” search engine. The results actually come from the teoma search engine, which I also included a link to. Teoma has a smaller lot to choose from, but sometimes smaller is better…I guess.

http://www.askjeeves.com

News

MSN – MSN has a strong partnership with MSNBC news page. Furthermore, the search results are fom a reputable news source. This second point is highly stressed. Who knows what kind of news you are getting from local sources.

http://search.msn.com

Yahoo - Stories from major services can be found here, while the "Full Coverage" area has special looks at various news topics, with outstanding resources assembled by the editors of Yahoo. A top news choice. This site also has excellent pictures accompanying its stories.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Travel

TripAdvisor.com - Whenever you are researching vacations, TripAdvisor can help. They have search the web for the best articles, travel guides and reviews on thousands of destinations.

http://www.tripadvisor.com

Yahoo – This is the way I normally research different cities that I may be traveling to. It can help with all of your travel needs, from flights to hotel, yahoo travel can get it done.

http://travel.yahoo.com/

Images

Google -

http://images.google.com/

Altavista -

http://www.altavista.com/image/default

Kids

Yahooligans! - Yahoo for kids, was designed for ages 7 to 12. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996. It has special features that block inappropriate websites from being viewed by innocent children.

http://www.yahooligans.com/

KidsClick! – It is set up like you are at the library, in different sections. I like the feature at the bottom that you can see the site through a librarians eyes and see each section as though it were a call number. Pretty funny.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/