Children's Search Engines

Major Children's Guides & Directories
The kid-safe directories below use human beings to filter out sites that might be considered objectionable for viewing by children.

Ask Jeeves For Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/
Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed.

KidsClick!
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

Other Children's Search Engines

ALA Great Web Site for Kids
http://www.ala.org/greatsites
An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous evaluation guidelines to assure high quality content, authority and "strength of character."

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Over 14,000 sites have been classified into a directory, specifically organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching.

Diddabdoo
http://www.dibdabdoo.com/
Billed as an ad free, non-commercial directory of web sites designed for child-safe searching.

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.

Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.

Family Source
http://www.family-source.com/
This focused crawler-based service has indexed nearly 1 million kid-friendly URLs.

FirstGov for Kids
http://www.kids.gov/
From the U.S. Federal Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, grouped by subject.

Kids Search Tools
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.

SearchEdu.com
http://www.searchedu.com/
Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.

Teach-nology.com
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.

TekMom's Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search/
All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.

ThinkQuest Library
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
A free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.

Related Articles

Knock, Knock -- Yahooligans! There
eMarketer, May 16, 2003
http://www.emarketer.com/news/article.php?1002239
Yahooligans, Yahoo's web property for children, says its third most popular feature is its human-edited list of kid-safe web sites.

Sites help kids learn how to use Internet for research
San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 20, 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4567315.htm