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| Search Engines and Directories | Meta Search Engines | Search Engines for Students | |||
| Before You Begin: Have a look at this site which has some great tips for finding information, lesson plans, core competencies and everything you need to make your searching more effective. |
| Noodle Tools | ."..this informative and up-to-date page provides you with the information needed to make educated decisions about the places to search for specific types of data " |
| Search Engine Watch | This
site provides a comprehensive guide to search engines. It looks at how to
use them , how they work, who is behind them and much more. You can also
subscribe to their e-mail newsletter |
| The Spiders Apprentice | How
to Use Web Search Engines. Lots of help in how to search effectively. Includes
links to major search engines. |
Micro
Modules  |
Use one of these 10 minute Micro Modules to upgrade your Search Engine skills |
| Web Search | About.com's
web search pages. Learn effective search strategies, take part in web scavenger
hunt's, learn about search tools, explore student friendly search sites
and much more |
| Internet Archive | Do you have a URL that no longer
works? Try the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive; simply type in
the entire URL, and you will receive a
list of
the times that the site was cached. Click on a date and you can see the
site. Sometimes the links and images are not available, but at least you
can get to the information you need! |
| Four Nets | Learn how to find things more effectively on the internet |
| Search
Engines and Directories |
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| All the Web | Alta Vista | AOL |
| Ask Jeeves | Dewey
Browse Web sites classified by the Dewey system. R-12 |
Find
Sounds A search engine dedicated to finding sound files |
| Google
Zeitgeist Find out the trends in what people are searching for. Interesting! |
Possum Pages Directory | |
| Yahoo
Australia |
Find That
File "Common searches are for PDFs, Documents, Audio, Video, RAR and ZIP compressed files, Fonts, and much much more." |
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| Meta Search Engines | ||
| Dogpile Includes Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask |
Ixquick Searches in 18 languages and includes international telephone directory |
Kartoo A metasearch engine with a visual display. A different way of dealing with data. |
| Metacrawler Includes Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask |
Search
IQ Searches Google, Look Smart and others |
Web
Crawler Includes Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask |
| Search Engines for Students | ||
| Awesome
Library |
Kids Click | Search Engines for Kids |
| Kid
Cyber A great online search directory |
Linktopia | TekMom |
| Fact
Monster |
Search Edu | Dib
Dab Doo Student friendly search engine |
| Ask
Jeeves for Kids |
Noodle
Tools A suite of interactive tools to help students with research |
Kids Tools
for Searching the Internet One page with links to lots of kids search engines |
Last
updated 3rd January 2012
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