Search Engines

You don't need to only choose Google!

Google  the first choice in large search engines.

Ask.com  Narrow or expand your search using well placed suggestions. Warning: Top links are "sponsors" or ads.

Ask Kids The kid site for Ask.com. Be sure to check the yellow sidebar to help narrow or expand your search.

AltaVista New, clean look to search screen. This is the Yahoo search, powered by Bing starting in 2012



Wolfram Alpha a computation search engine

Search preselected sites

Infotopia  Powered by Google, selected by librarians

KidsClick! A search directory organized by librarians. a selected number of sites. In the description is the reading level (0-2, 3-6, or 7+) and the amount of illustrations.

Sweet Search - searches selected evaluated for students

Metasearch engines: They search results from many search engines at once

[Link]Yippy: Searches other search engines. A "Deep Web" search engine

Dogpile  a metasearch engine - search many search engines at once.


Other Internet search tools

Boolify demonstrates how to construct a boolean search

Quintura Click on a word in the cloud to start a search

Compare Google and Bing (Sponsored by Bing)










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