Finding information on the net can be frustraiting if you don’t know where to go for the information or how to find it. Search engines are a great way to search for that great lesson or needed fact, but you have to know which one best suite your needed.

Different Types of Search Engines:

Crawler-based:
These automatically create their listings. The program uses their robots to “crawl” through the information on the web using you guidelines. Then you search the results to find you gold nugget. (Google)

Human-Powered:
Just like the name, this form depends on people for listings. A person would write and submit a synopsis of the entire site, in some cases it would be a review about a site that is submitted. Any changes that are done to the site to improve the listing have no impact of the listing directory. (Most kids search engines.)

Hybrid or Mixed:
Unlike today search engines were either one or the other. However, some search engines would combine the two and favor one of the two they would use. These are not in use as much because many search engines now have their own crawlers and do not rely on others.

Search Engines:


Your first stop when looking up information. This search engine can find sites, maps, imagines and so much more. Be sure to go through each section of Google to get use to the many features that it offers.
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This site also uses crawlers and takes its top searched sites and manually adds sites believed to relevant to those searches.

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Ask a question and it will find the information for you. Unlike the majority of search engines where key words are needed to find the information, a full question can be used instead.


The old man in the group, this site is more like Google than before but also some added human touches. While searching you will also be given some hand picked reviewed sites to explore.


Similar to the Yahoo search engine, however slightly more basic. One to think about when you need to gain more information.


AOL has its advantages for those of you who actually are with AOL. There are sites available only to those with accounts. It is similar to Google but you may find some different results if you are an AOL user.

Kid Search Engines

: Ask a question and get an answer. This is a kid friendly site that points students in the right direction. If it can’t help, it pulls up other sites that can.

KidsClick!: Used and supported by librarians all over the world.

Fact Monster: A homepage and search engine for children and what they are interested in.

Ages 7-12, this site is appropriate for elementary schools and younger High School students. This search engine will not bring back anything found on the web outside its parameters. Founded in March 1996, this is the oldest directory for children.


Others:

Daypop: Use keywords to search and find various news sites each day.
Ditto: A simple search engine.

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