Jacki Stranathan

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My Search Engine Guide

Meta Search Engines

  1. www.surf.wax.com An excellent meta search engine rated very highly. "Brings intelligence and efficiency to the open web through targeted multi-source searching. Saves time and can be specific to education.
  2. http://vivisimo.com Like the title suggests this search engine is movable and effortless. Information overload is a thing of the past. Great for corporation and company searches.

Kid Safe Search Engines

  1. www.yahooligans.com Very colorful and easy to access information. You can make cards play games search for all kinds of information. And it screens objectionable sites. Also banner ads will not appear. A plus for teachers and parents alike.
  2. www.sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsClick! A librarian recommended site and if a librarian recommends it how can it be wrong. Many subjects are listed. The movie listing are great! You can even build a googly eyed monster here!

News Search Engines

  1. http://news.yahoo.com This is a great news search engine. It has good pictures and is very easy to get around. It includes all the top reports and stories.
  2. www.cnn.com Always a good source of up to date information. It also gives links to other news worthy affiliates. In Time magazine there was an article about Katherine Hepburn I didn’t know she died.

Multimedia Searches

  1. http://www.picsearch.com A great place to search for pictures. It has pictures of the week and other pictures. It also has a parent filter so unwanted pictures will not pop up. Very useful for research and this class.
  2. http://images.google.com The most useful place to find pictures and media representations on the web. All kinds of images can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

Major Search Engines

  1. http://www.google.com This is the top award getting search engine. It can provide all the information you need. And as it’s name was originally back rub and that’s what I need now. I rely a lot on the Google.
  2. http://search.msn.com/ A high quality search engine that uses both editors and web crawlers. This is our search engine which comes up every time we log on. And it has not failed me yet.