Search Engines

Search engines take the user to the "public web" by connecting a key word to web sites on the internet.  There are millions of web sites on the internet, but these search engines will take you to those appropriate for school kids. The Search Engines featured on the left are appropriate for younger students.  The two on the right are for older researchers.

Google's Sweet Search...

is evaluated to be safe for children and features custom searches such as Sweet Search Biography and more.


Kidtopia...

 is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved web sites. 

RefSeek

Unlike Google and Bing, this search engine lists the sites with academic or educational domains before commercial ones. 

Wolfram Alpha

calls itself a computational knowledge engine in that it compares statistics and data from a variety of subjects.