Search Engines

This is a resource for teachers. Please check the sites carefully for suitability in your classroom before using with students.

New search engines with some amazing features!

Resources

• Grokker Elise Mueller-Search results in outline or web form. The kids love it! Me too.
• Clusty
• Firefox
• SearchMe- amazing visual search engine!
• TouchGraph This search engine shows connections between websites using visual clustering.
• KartOO Another search engine using visual clustering.
• http://www.archive.org/index.php 
• Search for Creative Commons content by media type, such as video, audio, text.
• WaybachMachine - find a website from the past, even if it has vanished or been changed. You can retrieve sites years after they left the web. CAUTION: ALL KINDS of sites are saved, so do not share with students.
• Education sites - Creative Commons lessons from major institutions, including PowerPoints, Flash, and Word doc versions. 
• Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Click on the blue box to enter the card catalog
• SpinExpress Search for Creative Commons content by media type
• SimpleSpark- Search for new Web 2.0 tools by category.
• Spezify- Still in beta this is a clustering search engine that pulls results from a variety of social networking sites such as MySpace, Twitter, etc.