Teacher Resources - Internet Searching

Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com/

BrainBoost
http://www.answers.com/bb/
"BrainBoost is a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost is 100% automated. Unlike other Question Answering engines, BrainBoost does not rely on human editors to locate answers. Instead, BrainBoost employs cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to understand your question and match it with relevant answers it locates on the web."

CyberSleuth Kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
“An Internet Search Guide for the K-12 Student.” There are links to educational clipart, flashcards, worksheets, online wrod searches, lesson plans for teachers and much more. Sections are conveniently grouped and linked by subject, for instance, Art & Music, Health, History, Language Arts, and Media.

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Excite
http://www.excite.com

Google
http://www.google.com

Google Searching
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it. One example is the Google Calculator: To use Google's built-in calculator function, enter the calculation you'd like done into the Google Search box and press the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants. Refer to complete instructions for help in building your own expressions.

LookSmart
http://search.looksmart.com/

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com

Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/WebQuest/searching/sevensteps.html

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Vivisimo is a very useful metasearch tool that is effective, powerful and easy to use. To use the site, enter any search term into the search window. The search return clusters Web sites and presents them on the left border of the page. Vivisimo presents three options for viewing a Web site found in a search: new window, full window, and preview. The most interesting is the preview function which displays the Web site in a scrollable window directly below the Web site listing in the search return. Users never have to leave the search return to view the site so that locating useful Web resources becomes a more efficient process.

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com