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The
following search engines are acceptable for students (K-8) to use
at home and at school. |
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AOL Search
- engine that defaults to AND logic and
offers an Options template for easy search construction; has an option
to view results by popularity; offers a directory based on the
Open Directory
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Ask.com
- general search
engine enhanced by a number of specialty searches including a
dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia, maps, news and
more (Site is a merging of the former search engines Ask Jeeves and
Teoma)
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All The Web - returns
results quickly from an extremely large database gathered by the
Yahoo crawler; offers multimedia and news searches; has a good advanced
search interface
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Google
- ranks pages by tracking the links links from pages ranked high by the
service. |
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Kids Click
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Ask Jeeves for Kids |
| Yahoo
Kids |
Cyber Sleuth
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MSN Search -
Microsoft's search engine that offers searches of the general Web as well as
some deep Web sources; includes a Search Builder that includes an option to
retrieve results based on recent updates, popularity and exact or
approximate match. This tool will eventually be replaced by
Windows Live Search.
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Ujiko - features a
number of results customization tools in a visual environment that also
offers topic classification for subsequent searches
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Cacti Search -
search Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, and retrieve a collated results list
with an option to view results from each engine separately
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Dogpile
- search 20+ search
engines and retrieve results by relevance or separate source engine;
also presents concept clusters for viewing results organized by keywords
or topics
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MetaCrawler
- retrieve results in
relevancy ranked order; useful power search available with a template of
search options
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Montegut Middle School's 
Search Engines for
Students 
Montegut
Middle School 2008-2009