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Lesson Plan MEGA Search!
Ten Student-Safe Search Engines! All in one place!
  1. 411web- A series of vertical portals providing information on everything from Autos to Pets from Insurance to Boating. A neat way to search the web.
  2. Aesop Search - The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.
  3. AllTheWeb - Search with a simple interface and huge database. Also offers news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search. Uses the Open Directory category structure to create the 'Fast Topics' option in search results.
  4. Amfibi - General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
  5. Business.com- A search engine for things related to business.
  6. Find What- If your looking for a commercial web site take a look here.
  7. Go2Call- Enter where you want to call. CallFinder will instantly search its exclusive database of calling rates and features from providers who can place your PC-to-Phone call.
  8. Google- By far the best search on the net. It has an uncanny knack for finding the most relevant web pages based on your search. Yahoo agrees with us, they just dropped their other search service in favor of Goggle.
  9. Lycos- Probably a close secong to google in the search engine department. Lycos allows you to search for specific media on the web (i.e. pictures, sounds, video).
  10. Objects Search - An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
  11. Point And Seek- The best thing about this site, beside the fact that search the world's top 20 search engines in one click, is that it's just plain simple to use.
  12. SearchHippo - Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
  13. Teoma - Using the same database as Ask Jeeves, it ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
  14. WiseNut - Index of 1.5 billion pages. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
  15. Wotbox - Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.
 

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