Search Engines
For Children
Quintera for Kids- this is a great search engine that helps kids refine their searches by showing them clouds of keywords for topics they search for and then showing kid friendly results.
Variations on Google
Soople - This is a site that puts all of the advanced Google search options on one page and is very clear and easy to use. It helped me realise some more things I could do with Google which was also useful!
Visual
oSkope - a visual search tool that lets you look for content from Amazon, eBay, Flickr and YouTube. It then gives you a visual display of the results which you can say how you'd like them displayed such as in a stack or pile. If you want to keep one of the results, you can drag it into your folder for safekeeping.
Quintera for Adults - A search returns both a list of search results and a tag cloud. The tag cloud contains the original search terms surrounded by related tags. The closer to the search terms, the larger the keyword suggestions (both in terms of font size and boldness), the more relevant they are deemed.
Visuwords - A graphical dictionary that gives you related words or concepts to the entered word in a cloud around which is a very attractive interface (and a lot of fun to drag around on the screen :-) Great for enriching writing.
Kartoo is a visual search engine that presents search results in a series of interactive maps
PageBull - a search engine that gives you a screenshot of each website it has found in the search results.
Metasearch Engines
Dogpile says it takes the best search results from a number of search engines.
Clusty organises your search results from an number of different search engines into topic areas
Human Generated
Librarian's Internet Index contains reliable and safe links
Mahalo - these search result pages have been submitted by actual people who are paid by the Mahalo staff if their contribution is accepted.
Creative Commons Searching
Creative Commons.org - On this website, there is the option to do a Creative Commons search in Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Owl, Blip TV and SpinExpress.
Flickr CC search - Flickr has its own way to do CC searches. Click on 'see more' under each type of CC license to be able to do a search by that type of license.
Scholar/ Research Searches
Infomine - search scholarly internet resource collections.
Intute - a database of education and research resources.
Video Search Engines
Pure Video lets you search for videos on ANY website as well as in popular sites such as UTube. Very comprehensive.
New Zealand Search Engines
SearchNZ is a 'fault-tolerant' (fuzzy) search engine, resricted to NZ cyberspace.
Lists of Search Engines
On this site there is an exhaustive list of search engines organised by the type of search you could do
Alt Search Engines - This website has a huge list of alternative search engines. Very interesting!
Still want more? Here is a huge list of other databases and search engines to try.
Quintera for Kids- this is a great search engine that helps kids refine their searches by showing them clouds of keywords for topics they search for and then showing kid friendly results.
Variations on Google
Soople - This is a site that puts all of the advanced Google search options on one page and is very clear and easy to use. It helped me realise some more things I could do with Google which was also useful!
Visual
oSkope - a visual search tool that lets you look for content from Amazon, eBay, Flickr and YouTube. It then gives you a visual display of the results which you can say how you'd like them displayed such as in a stack or pile. If you want to keep one of the results, you can drag it into your folder for safekeeping.
Quintera for Adults - A search returns both a list of search results and a tag cloud. The tag cloud contains the original search terms surrounded by related tags. The closer to the search terms, the larger the keyword suggestions (both in terms of font size and boldness), the more relevant they are deemed.
Visuwords - A graphical dictionary that gives you related words or concepts to the entered word in a cloud around which is a very attractive interface (and a lot of fun to drag around on the screen :-) Great for enriching writing.
Kartoo is a visual search engine that presents search results in a series of interactive maps
PageBull - a search engine that gives you a screenshot of each website it has found in the search results.
Metasearch Engines
Dogpile says it takes the best search results from a number of search engines.
Clusty organises your search results from an number of different search engines into topic areas
Human Generated
Librarian's Internet Index contains reliable and safe links
Mahalo - these search result pages have been submitted by actual people who are paid by the Mahalo staff if their contribution is accepted.
Creative Commons Searching
Creative Commons.org - On this website, there is the option to do a Creative Commons search in Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Owl, Blip TV and SpinExpress.
Flickr CC search - Flickr has its own way to do CC searches. Click on 'see more' under each type of CC license to be able to do a search by that type of license.
Scholar/ Research Searches
Infomine - search scholarly internet resource collections.
Intute - a database of education and research resources.
Video Search Engines
Pure Video lets you search for videos on ANY website as well as in popular sites such as UTube. Very comprehensive.
New Zealand Search Engines
SearchNZ is a 'fault-tolerant' (fuzzy) search engine, resricted to NZ cyberspace.
Lists of Search Engines
On this site there is an exhaustive list of search engines organised by the type of search you could do
Alt Search Engines - This website has a huge list of alternative search engines. Very interesting!
Still want more? Here is a huge list of other databases and search engines to try.
