Kid-friendly Search Engines

If you want your kids or students to find age appropriate resources in the internet try the following:


Kids Click! Web Search 

KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians– with kid-friendly results!
All links are professionally chosen, evaluated, and cataloged by subject. You can use the alphabetical list of subject headings or browse the site by subject directories, narrowing by categories until you have an annotated list of relevant sites.If you want to learn more about searching select Search Lessons to access Worlds of Web Searching. Links to more search tools, picture search tools and sound search tools are also listed at the top of the home page

The Internet Public Library For Kids 
If you use a Search Engine that has been designed for students, you will be assured to get information that is written at an age-appropriate level and that the found resource will contain age-appropraite images, charts, and graphs.


Ask Kids- Web search engine designed for children ages 6 to 12. Powered by Ask.com.

Yahooligans
-is the ultimate web guide for kids! Features fun and educational resources for kids with games, animals, music, jokes, movies, news, astrology, TV
-a public web portal provided by Yahoo! to find age-appropriate online content for children between the ages of 6 and 12.

Ithaki 
- a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for.


CyberSleuth Kids
An internet search guide for the K-12 student

Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - A multi-lingual picture dictionary with links to educational activities and games.

DmozKids
- kids and teens directory


Fact Monster 
-Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Homework Help
- a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports

AolKIDS - Web site for kids with games, music, cartoons, movies, animals and celebrities.

Awesome Library - organizes 37000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians