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Volume 31, Number 3, February 2004

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 Visual Aspects (alphabetically)
Based on layout, choice of color, font, background graphics and 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
Kids Click
Yahooligans

Good
Awesome Library
Cool Network
Discovery School
Internet Detectives
Kids Search Tools
Lycos Zone
Tek Mom