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Search Links

This is an alphabetical list.  Try them all out.

• AltaVista (http://www.altavista.net) is a network which has one of the first search engines on the Web.  They keep improving it, and many people think this is the best.  However, it has so many features that sometimes it's slow.
• Ask Jeeves (http://www.askjeeves.com) - Unlike most search engines, this one you can ask for results in a regular sentence.  As far as I'm concerned, that isn't enough.  If you're looking for an encyclopedia article, this works.
• Ask Jeeves For Kids (http://www.ajkids.com/) - Ask any question, get an answer. Sometimes the answer is to a different question than you asked.  Many kids like being able to ask questions instead of think up search terms. For me, I'd rather get good results.  
• Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com)  Part of Go2Net (along with Metacrawler), Dogpile searches a group of other search services and comes up with hits for your search on each one.  Sometimes I use this to get started, then switch to the search service that gives the best hits for my question.
• Excite (http://www.excite.com) - Excite, like Yahoo, has a directory - a list of recommended sites that you can search.  
• Factmonster (http://www.factmonster.com/) which is more of a reference than a search engine, and used to be Kids' Information Please Almanac.
• Google (http://www.google.com) - I love Google.  It gives results that are likely to be popular with other Web sites (and therefore good) because it looks at how many links point to a site on the Web that answers your search question.  In my experience, this gives great results.
• Hotbot (http://www.hotbot.lycos.com) is part of the Lycos Network and is one of the Web's best-rated search engines.
• Ixquick (http://ixquick.com) searches other search engines, and it seems to select and display the results well. I like it even better than Dogpile. Give it a try
• KidsClick (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/) - "Web search for kids by librarians" (Runner-Up for "Most Child-Friendly Search Tool" in the Millennial Favorites of the 12/30/99 Philadelphia Inquirer) - you can search by clicking on lists in an index, clicking on an alphabetical list, or typing in your own search terms.
• Lycos (http://www.lycos.com) is a network with many other services in addition to its search tool.  
• Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com) Part of Go2Net (along with Dogpile), "MetaCrawler incorporates from the top search engines on the Web. It collates results, eliminates duplication, scores the results and provides the user with a comprehensive list of relevant sites. "
• Northern Light (http://www.nlsearch.com) is well-organized and gives you results from not only the Web but books, magazines, databases, and newswires.
• Yahooligans! (http://www.yahooligans.com) A directory of good sites on the Web; it will give you results based on what the people at Yahoo! think of sites that are good for kids. It doesn't get updated very often, in my experience.
• Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com)  This is also a directory of good sites.  It used to be great but got too big to keep itself up to date.