Search Engines
INFORMATION SEARCHING
Alternatives to Google Search
‘Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved web sites.’
‘KidsSearch.com is a Safe Search Engine for children. We use Google's Safe Search technology and advanced filtering tools on web content. We offer kid friendly links through our directory, each site is peer reviewed for appropriate content, usefulness and fun.’
‘Teach the Children Well is a collection of links to sites carefully selected by a teacher for students as well as their parents and teachers. The site was designed for elementary grades but many of the sites will also be of interest to older students.’
‘Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids powered by Google, offering safe kids web, image, and video search. Results are vetted by editors.’
DuckDuckGo is not necessarily designed for kids but it does however offer features that allow users to search the net without compromising their private and personal information. DuckDuckGo does not store search history, doesn’t run ads, and does not track users. The perfect choice for those who wish to keep their browsing habits and personal information private.
GoGooligans is another kid search engine that provide a number of important features including: use Google index to retrieve results, apply different kinds of filtering features, excludes inappropriate sites and keywords, offers search in over 30 languages and many more.
‘KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! KidRex searches emphasize kid-related webpages from across the entire web and are powered by Google Custom Search™ and use Google SafeSearch™ technology.’
Bing has a rewards program that allows one to accumulate points while searching. These points are redeemable at the Microsoft and Windows stores. Bing image search GUI is superior to its rival's and much more intuitive. Bing carries that same clean user experience to video, making it the go-to source for video search without a YouTube bias.
Is a general interest site with fin facts, quizzes, games, activities and articles written on a variety of topics.
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, these, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
CC Search should be your first stop on the hunt for nearly any type of copyright-free content.The way CC Search works is simple – it draws in results from platforms such as Soundcloud, Wikimedia, and Flickr and displays results labeled as Creative Commons material.
StartPage serves up answers from Google, making it the perfect choice for those who prefer Google’s search results, but aren’t keen on having their search history tracked and stored. It also includes a URL generator, a proxy service, and HTTPS support. The URL generator is especially useful because it eliminates the need to collect cookies. Instead, it remembers your settings in a way that promotes privacy.
Verizon Media launched its privacy-focused search engine, OneSearch, in January 2020. It promises: No cookie tracking, retargeting, or personal profiling; No sharing of personal data with advertisers; No storing of user search history; Unbiased, unfiltered search results; Encrypted search terms.
Provides crowd-sourced search results by pulling its results from thousands of wikis on the net. It is the perfect search engine for those who appreciate community-led information as found on sites like Wikipedia.
This search engine queries its results from a wide variety of message boards and forums online. You should be able to find the forum you want with just a few keystrokes.
A self-described “social impact search engine” which aims to have a positive impact on the world by empowering users to solve the issue of poor quality water and ineffective sanitation across the developing world.
Ekoru is taking on the ever-present threat of climate change by donating 60% of its monthly revenue to one of several partner charities, ranging from those focusing on reforestation and climate action to those who are dedicated to animal welfare and conservation. They also aim to select a different charitable cause every month. Ekoru puts its money where its mouth is, using renewable energy sources for its data centers and taking a stand for civil rights by not storing any user or search-related data on their servers.
Looking to save the planet, one tree at a time? Then check out this environmentally friendly search engine! This may come as a surprise, but your Google searches actually contribute to the creation of quite a bit of CO2. To battle this issue, Ecosia uses the revenues generated from search engine queries to plant trees. Typically Ecosia needs around 45 searches to plant a new tree.