Search Engines

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html Spider's Apprentice -helps you search the Web more efficiently. They explain to you how search engines work. They advise you on improving your own search engine ranking by careful use of meta tags and keywords. They guide you in figuring out which search engines are most effective-in fact, They rank them for you. (See their current rankings)

http://www.alltheweb.com This is an incredible search engine and extremely FAST. You can type in phrases, or words and get immediate responses.

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/KingsParkES/technology/search.htm Search engines for kids

http://dir.yahoo.com/reference/index.html - Yahoo search engine links

http://www.search.com/ Seek, and you shall find. This is an absolutely incredible tool for finding information on the web. It is a page of hundreds search engines listed by category. All your favorites like Yahoo are there plus many more.

http://www.searchopolis.com/advanced_search.php   Searchopolis, searches for links based on the grade level of the student. The following is the URL  for searching by grade level. The opening page of Searchopolis has curriculum links sorted by elementary, middle, and secondary. Within each sub-group there are links to the curricular areas. http://www.searchopolis.com/

http://www.educationworld.com besides providing safe searches of over 500,000 web resources, this site has lesson plans, reference resources, and much more

http://www.findsounds.com This search engine will find sounds of all sorts in many formats

http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Kids search tools - use this site to pick a search engine for research

http://www.worldsofsearching.org/ Kids Click! World of Searching - This site from the Ramapo Catskill Library teaches students how to search the Web for the information they need.

http://www.metacrawler.com - MetaCrawler - good for details, uses 12 top search engines, gives addresses, can search by phrases

http://www.altavista.com/ Altavista - Translations, speeches of famous people, audio/video images,

http://www.deja.com/ Dejanews - searches the Internet newsgroups

http://www.acses.com "A killer" search engine to find the cheapest prices out on the Internet. You can search for more than just books there too! You simply enter either: title, author, publisher or ISBN, it locates the title for you, then you select the amount of time you want it to search the Net and Presto! It comes back with the lowest, delivered (including shipping, etc.) price to your door! http://www.shopping.com is another one that is pretty good.

HTTP://www.education-world.com/ Education World - search for subjects, lessons, more

http://www.hotbot.com/ HotBot

http://infoseek.go.com/ Infoseek

http://www.northernlight.com/ Northern Light

http://www.pedagonet.com/ Learning resources site - has information on programs, catelogues, and sites, including chats

http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/kidsclick!/ Kidsclick - search by letter, or subject

http://www.liszt.com/ Mailing Lists Directory

http://www.excite.com/travel/regions/ Travel

http://www.allonesearch.com/ All in One Search - meta search engine

http://www.dogpile.com/ Dogpile - a meta-search engine

http://www.webscout.com/search/search.html SuperSearch - another meta-search engine

http://www.metafind.com/ MetaFind - Stop Searching! Start Finding!

http://members.home.net/albeej/ Needles in a Cyberstack Info Seeker - divided by subject matter, also has list of search engines

http://www.hotbot.com/ Webcrawler

http://www.lycos.com/ Lycos:

http://www.mckinley.com/ Magellan:

http://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo

http://www.yahooligans.com Yahooligans

http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html Galaxy

http://www.ukplus.co.uk/ukplus/owa/pkg_home.p_home UK Plus - large search engine

http://www.google.com/ Google

http://www.search.com/ Seek, and you shall find. This is an absolutely incredible tool for finding information on the web. It is a page of hundreds search engines listed by category. All your favorites like Yahoo are there plus many more.

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lib.html and still another: 700 Great Sites for Lib & Schools from the American Lib Assn.

http://searchenginewatch.com/ Search Engine Watch - News, tips, and information about search engines

http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/links/Metacrawlers/ tons of search engines and tutorials

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