All About Child Friendly Search Engines:

Unfortunately with several billion web pages archived on the net kids often have to sort through hundreds of web sites before finding the material that they're looking for.

Though there are some exceptions, most search engines aren't per teacher Lee kid friendly in that they will Index any and all web sites that they're search spiders find.

However, there are a number of search engines designed specifically for use by children: either in focus or by filtering out porn, violence, hate, drug related and gambling web sites.

By selecting one or more of these " kid focused" search engines and book marketing them for easy access you'll goal long way in helping make your child's web adventures safer and more fun.

Major Children's Guides & Directories

The kid friendly search engines and directories below employ actual human beings to manually filter out and remove the sites that are considered objectionable and inappropriate for children.

Ask Jeeves For Kids - Ask Jeeves is a fun and unique service. Just enter a question, and "Jeeves" tries to point you to the right web page that provides a specific answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been scored for appropriateness.

KidsClick! -Moderated by real live librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

Yahooligans -Basically, Yahoo for kids. Targeted to kids ages 7 to 12. All sites are hand-picked and contain appropriate for children.

Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. Additionally, Yahooligans does not allow adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service.

Awesome Library - Over 14,000 sites are classified in the directory, it's been specifically organized for teachers, students and parents.

Diddabdoo - This "ad free, non-commercial directory" of web sites is designed for child-safe usage.

Education World - Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Even offers the ability to narrow searches by appropriate grade level.

Fact Monster - Reference based site that provides facts and information targeted around the unique needs of children.

Family Source

Kids Search Tools - Offers a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single search page.

SearchEdu.com - A comprehensive index of pages built from a multitude of education web sites.

Teach-nology.com - Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.

TekMom's Search Tools for Students - All-in-one search page for kid research resources.