Great Reading: Bookmark It!
Volume 31, Number 2, December 2003
Ken Haycock
Kids’ Search Engines:
The Best for Grades 4-10
--excerpted with permission from The Neal-Schuman Authoritative
Guide to Kids’ Search Engines, Subject Directories,
and Portals, by Ken Haycock, Michele Dober, and Barbara
Edwards. Neal-Schuman, 2003. 1-55570-451-4.
Ranked alphabetically Best Content
Educational Focus
Awesome
Library
Bigchalk
Discovery
School
Fact
Monster
Homework
Planet
Internet
Detectives
Internet
Public Library KidSpace
Kid
Info
Kids
Konnect
Kids
Search Tools
Great
Web Sites for Kids from ALA (formerly 700+ Great
Sites from ALA)
Tek
Mom
Educational and Recreational Focus
Ask
Jeeves for Kids
Berit’s
Best Sites for Children
Cool
Network
Cybersleuth
Kids
Internet
Detectives
KidsClick!
Lycos
Zone
Yahooligans
Best Visual Aspects
Based on layout, choice of color, font, background graphics,
animation
Very Good
Ask Jeeves
for Kids
Berit’s
Best Sites for Children
Cybersleuth
Kids
Fact
Monster
Internet
Public Library KidSpace
Internet
Public Library TeenSpace
KidsClick!
Yahooligans
Good
Awesome
Library
Cool
Network
Discovery
School
Internet
Detectives
Kids
Search Tools
Lycos
Zone
Tek
Mom |
