Search Engines for Education
 
Useekufind 
http://www.useekufind.com/tproject.htm 

This is a great web site for teachers and students.  For students and parents there is a link to the yahoo search engine for 8 to 14 year olds.  This search engine is sensored for the students safety and the parents peace of mind.  For us college students it provides and excellent source for research papers and projects that can be used as a reference. 
 

Dogpile 
www.dogpile.com 
 
This site is great for the teacher who loves to search the web, but just cannot find enough time with all of the different search engines available.  This site combines all of the available search engines and combines them.  Therefore, a teacher can search all of the engines at once, saving time and energy.  Useful for Teachers:  This site could be useful for any teacher, since it helps save time and energy when searching for a topic.  This site makes any topic you could imagine accessible from elementary art to high school history.  It also can provide you with resources concerning computers in the classroom. 
 
Metacrawler 
www.metacrawler.com 
 
This site is similar to Dogpile in that it takes many different search engines and combines to make them accessible all at once.  The topics included in this site range from doing an engine search to The Yellow Pages, the weather, classifieds, and even maps and directions. Helpful to Teachers:  This site can be very helpful to teachers because it condenses many different engines into one, which makes searching the web easy and less time consuming.  This site makes various topics easily and quickly accessible to teachers who need answers and information and don’t have enough time to search different engines. 
 
Planet K-12 
http://planetk-12.planetsearch.com/ 

This site is an internet gateway for teachers.  One of the benefits of searching    through this site is that it allows you to search only educational sites using your own key words.  It would be helpful for teachers with limited planning time who really wanted to limit their searches. 
 

Yahooligans 
http://www.yahooligans.com/ 

This site is brought to you from the people who created Yahoo!, one of the first and most popular directories.  Yahooligans is specifically designed for kids.  Subject matter is divided into eight subject groups, which opens up new pages where research parameters can be refined.  Yahooligans also allows keyword searches as well. 

In the classroom, this becomes a valuable tool for student research.  This site is designed and laid out for kids.  For a teacher, Yahooligans offers the added assurance that children will be searching a directory especially created for children, not adults.  Research can be done through this web site without the need of the teacher monitoring the web site selections for questionable or adult content. 
 

    
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