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Family & Kid Safe Search Engines
Ask for Kids (www.askkids.com)is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Designed to be a fun destination site focused on learning and "edu-tainment." Ask for Kids combines human editorial judgment, age-appropriate feature content and filtering technology to enable kids to find both relevant and befitting information on the Web.
Dibdabdoo website (http://www.dibdabdoo.com) searches around 2 million kid/teen safe sites and the database is growing daily. The engine used on Dibdabdoo.com does NOT crawl the Internet and add any site it comes across instead I use fast meta technology that crawls sites and databases that have been reviewed by human's and classified as kid/teen safe.
KidsClick! (http://www.kidsclick.org/) was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
The founders of Education World (http://www.educationworld.com) recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for. The result is Education World, the Educator's Best Friend.
Fact Monster (http://www.factmonster.com) is a destination for homework help and facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health. Highly ranked in search engines, Fact Monster contains an encyclopedia, almanacs, games, quizzes, research tools, holiday features, lots of self-made microsites for books, and more
The Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org provides only resources that have been reviewed and found to be of high quality for our users. In order to be included in the Awesome Library, resources need to meet all of the standards below.
- Only child-safe links
- Useful for teachers, students ("kids" or "teens"), parents, or librarians
- "Real Stuff" (Actual documents, projects, pictures, and discussion groups)
- Current
- Load quickly
- Small percentage of "dead" links
- Best version available
Tek Mom is a Search tool for students (http://www.tekmom.com/search).
Yahoo! has revamped its games / entertainment / schoolwork portal for its youngest users. Now simply called Yahoo! Kids, (http://kids.yahoo.com) the site is kid-safe and editorially supervised, a "walled garden" of content that draws on a database free of objectionable material.
