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Search Engines for Kids and Families

The following are a series of links to family appropriate search engines. Please note however that there is still always the small possibility that these sites may themselves allow inadvertent access to inappropriate material. WISE KIDS cannot make any guarantees in this respect.

Ask Jeeves for Kids allows children to ask questions naturally and as they try a few searches they get the idea of how to refine the questions they should ask. There is a good Study Tools section and a homework message board.

Yahooligans is a yahoo directory for children. From the front page you can choose the Homework Help section, listed under School Bell. This is an American site, but most of the resources and links are relevant to UK homework too.

Kids Click! was created for school children by librarians. You can find the information you want by choosing from directory lists, doing simple or advanced searches, or choosing a topic by clicking on its initial letter in an alphabet display.

American Library Association has many great sites for kids:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/index.cfm

SurfSafely is a family friendly directory and reportedly has the single largest database of labelled web sites.

AnimalSearch is a family search engine for animal related web sites.

Dibdabdoo is a child friendly search portal.

Ithaki is a metasearch engines which searches all the following sites: ArtKidsRule, AolKids, AppuKidsDmoz Kids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, Discovery School.

Kigose is a multiple search engines designed by teachers and students.