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eLearn Far North Queensland's List: Search Engines
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Jan 10, 12
Famhoo is another option for kid friendly searches. Famhoo draws on the collective results of the major search mainstream search engines like Google, AOL, and Yahoo. Famhoo simply provides a stricter family filter than the filters available on mainstream search engines.
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Jan 10, 12
Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students).
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Search Engines
When we are looking for something on the World Wide Web, we tend to say 'let's Google it.' But there are many more search engines available to us and some are more appropriate for student use, particularly primary age students. Below is a compilation of our favourite search engines - most of which are considered child-friendly.
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Oct 06, 10
This is a clustering search engine that allows users to refine their search. It is not a filtered, child-friendly search engine but is very useful for teaching students how to define and refine search terms.
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Search Engines for Early Childood
These search engines are particularly suitable for Early Childhood.
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Primary Age Search Engines
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Feb 23, 10
Australian search engine that allows a primary and secondary search.
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Our Favourites
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Feb 24, 10
This search engines is a visual search engine that builds up a visual cube of search results with simple annotations that tell the user what type of resource a particular find is. Not recommended for whole class use however, as the visualisation could prove to be slow in a lab situation.
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