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4 Safe Search Engines for Kids

4 Safe Search Engines for Kids
If you are a parent or a teacher looking for search engines to recommend to your kids and students, the list below will be a great start for you. 1- Ask Kids Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It's a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that's safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines. 2- KidRex KidRex is a fun and safe search for kids, by kids! 3- KidzSearch KidzSearch offers a unique solution to this important problem. 4- Searchy Pants Searchy Pants is a simple and safe internet search engine for families, children and pupils.

Student Search Engines: Comparison Chart Pros - Has built-in spell-check - Includes separate directory for K-2 students - Lists grade levels for each site - Features natural language search - Accesses several search engines at once - Provides dates of when sites were added - When browsing by category it separates resources by type (research, lists, news, multimedia, etc) - None found - Maintained by librarians and library school students - Subject categories well thought out - Started by the world's first-known "cybrarian" - Has spell-check utility - Lists new sites added each week - Enormous database (seldom see zero results) - Has dozens of active editors from varied backgrounds adding/reviewing sites - Simple, clean design; easy-to-use - Sites chosen (and their descriptions) fit target audience well Cons - Site currently doesn't allow you to see 2nd page of search results - Many categories are too general and are therefore too full for browsing (some categories have hundreds of Web sites listed in them) - Includes excessive pop-up ads

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