20 of the Best Search Engines for Students Jun 02, 2011 Google, Bing and Yahoo! are great for broad questions, but research can often be a lot easier with a focused search. Check out these 20 useful search engines that can help students find academic information, people, video, photos, audio and more. Academic Search Engines Google Scholar - Powered by Google, this search engine makes it easy to find papers, abstracts, citations and other scholarly literature. iSEEK - Designed specifically for students and educators, iSEEK is a non-commercial search engine that delivers editor-reviewed results from universities, government sites and other noncommercial providers. Social Search Engines Wink - Wink is the world's largest people search engine.
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Jump To: Award Winners - Other Choices - Specialty Choices All-In-One Search - Meta Search Articles Award Winners Dogpile Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Vivisimo Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Kartoo If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Other Top Choices See something you like? Specialty Choices
The WWW Virtual Library The Venus Project 10 Search Engines for Students The Internet has made learning almost anything easier, but finding what you're looking for on the Internet can be an overwhelming experience. Our list of 10 search engines includes some of the most popular general engines, plus some specialty engines that might be particularly helpful to students. Special thanks to Wendy Boswell, About's Guide to Web Search. 1. Google Google seems to be most everyone's default search engine. Wendy has created a handy advanced shortcut cheat sheet: Google Advanced Search Shortcuts. 2. Microsoft Bing Bing is a Microsoft product formerly called Microsoft Live Search. 3. In addition to being a web portal, Yahoo! Check out Wendy's Yahoo! 4. dogpile dogpile Dogpile is a meta search engine, which means it gathers results from several engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo! Wendy walks you through how to use each of Dogpile's categories: How to Use Dogpile. 5. Ask.com Wendy has some nice tips for How to Search with Ask.com. 6. Lycos 7. blinkx 8. Wolfram|Alpha 9. TalkMiner
Listphile: Shared lists, atlases, and databases WebP for .NET Finding OERs Search engines A number of search engines exist to search Open Educational Resources. These include: DiscoverEd - "Discover the Universe of Open Educational Resources"Jorum - "free learning and teaching resources, created and contributed by teaching staff from UK Further and Higher Education Institutions"OCWFinder - "search, recommend, collaborate, remix"OER Commons - "Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World. Organize K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more." Dandelion Image CC BY-NC-SA monteregina
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Great Specialized Search Engines for Educators I have recently posted several articles about tips teachers and students need to know in order to better use search engines. In fact online searching skills are indispensable to our students overall digital skills. I have particularly focused on Google because it is the number one search engine almost everybody uses when running a search query. Given the importance of this search engine in education we have compiled a comprehensive guide to All Google Search Features Teachers and Students Need to Know about. Check out these series of the 21st century search engines for teachers : Today we are introducing you to another kind of search engines labelled ' specialized search engines '. 1- Real Time Search: This is one of the most interesting kind of specialized search engines. a- Google : Google offers a social search service that you can access by clicking on More on the left side and then select Real Time. b- Bing Bing too offers a similar service that you can access at www.bing.com/social.