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[|6 Ways To Reduce Irrelevant Results On Google Search] The information here will probably apply to other search engines as well. [|Google's Wonder Wheel and Timeline] Read how Google's Wonder Wheel and Timeline can help improve learners searches. If the included video is too small, [|here is the full screen version.] ** This is very useful! ** [|Handy Google Search Tips: 19 Simple Tricks You Need To Know]**.** Google's engineers have tricked out the search engine with a number of tools, shortcuts, and features that can help you better access the information you're after--whether it's finding out how many Euros to the dollar, when your favourite team is playing next, or whether to leave home with an umbrella**.** [|Google Web Search - Classroom Lessons and Resources]. Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students - and we've heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom. The following Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers to help you do just that. The lessons are short, modular and not specific to any discipline so you can mix and match to what best fits the needs of your classroom. Additionally, all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions. [|Ten Items All Should Know When Using Google Basic Search…]

[|Kngine] Kngine is a Web 3.0 Search Engine (i.e. revolutionary Semantic Search Engine and Question Answer Engine) designed to provide customized meaningful search result, such as: Semantic Information about the keyword/concept, Answer the user’s questions, List of things, Discover the relations between the keywords/concepts, and link the different kind of related information together such as: Movies, Subtitles, Photos, Price at sale store, User reviews, and Influenced story. [|Sweet Search] SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites. SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines. [|Search-Cube] Search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images. [|Search-Spacetime] Another visual search engine that displays results in images, similar to the Coverflow process that Apple use. [|Melzoo] This Meta search engine, offers "visual previews" of the search results. In other words users will receive much more relevant, quality information. Most existing search engines are not offering this. This major advantage results in a much better user experience. [|Eyeplorer] Search engines help you find links and documents – they require you to follow these links and open the respective document in order to access information. eyePlorer.com, powered by vionto, provides immediate access to facts. It visualizes facts as well as relationships between facts. Furthermore, eyePlorer.com allows you to collect, process and publish interesting bits of information. eyePlorer.com is a graphical knowledge engine. [|Boolify] Why Use Boolify? Librarians, teachers and parents have told us how hard it is for students to understand web searching. Boolify makes it easier for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. It's simple, immediate and easy to use with your class or in your library. TRY IT! [|Search Credible] Search Credible is a search service that allows you to access 26 different search engines from one location. Search Credible's utility for teachers is that instead of having to tell students to go to multiple individual search engines it gives them one place to direct their students to. Teachers could use Search Credible as the basis for a comparison exercise in which students evaluate and compare different sources of information on the same topic. [|BevyFind]BevyFind makes web search faster than ever by allowing the user to open multiple search results in the original browser window without having to leave the search page. All the user has to do is click a button next to the search result, causing an embedded BevyWindow with the desired website to open up on the page. This allows you to immediately see whether that search result is what you're looking for. No more having to open a bunch of tabs or windows! The BevyWindow can also be maximized and minimized, allowing the user to check each search result out in either full screen or half screen - either horizontally or vertically - and if desired, use the BevyWindow as a browser window. [|FeedMil] A nice way to search where users can adjust their results via a sliding panel that controls the searching criteria. [|Sputtik] A great way to search for results on the web with a variety of content covered in different visual ways. Very interesting concept! [|Webkruz] Webkruz is an new innovative visual search engine that is striving to change how people search for data on the internet. Instead of showing the results in a flat textual format, Webkruz shows the results in a way that gives the results more depth. The search results are shown with a snapshot of the website to allow you to see the site before navigating to the site. The search results are also broken up into categories. These categories give you a better understanding of the sites' contents and helps you quickly drill down to the desired sites. [|Scoopler] Scoopler is a real-time search engine that gives you access to new information on the web faster than ever before. Give it a try and see for yourself. Scoopler looks at all the content people are sharing across real-time services like Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Flickr and more. We then rank all this content by recency, popularity and authority to continuously deliver the most up-to-date results available on the web. [|Spezify] Get visual results with a sticky-type interface that incorporates all sorts of media content.. Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways. We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience. We want you to get a good overview of a subject, find useful information and be inspired with Spezify. We mix all media types and make no difference between blogs, videos, microblogs and images. Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture. [|TheGuideDB] There are lots of guides and tutorials available online. The problem is, they can be so scattered that it is hard to find the exact guide that can really help you. Fortunately, we have the Guide DB, a Google-powered pdf manual search engine for useful PDF guides. With this website, you can find all PDF guides that you need in one place. [|Mashpedia] Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia enhanced with cutting-edge functionalities and sophisticated features such as multimedia [|content, social media tools and real-time information, accessible to people all over the world.] [|FindSounds]: Search the Web for Sounds [|DeweyDigger] Welcome, wonderful web wanderer. Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click. This looks good!

Safer Searching for Younger Children
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