Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
A comprehensive page of links that will help users understand how to select the best search engine for their purpose, learn better search strategies for the internet, and link quickly to the most common search engines and metasearch engines. An excellent resource.

Kansas City Public Library: Introduction to Search Engines
Helps users understand the differences between many common search engines.

Searching the Web
This site is an on-line tutorial with beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons.

Largest Search Engine
NorthernLight.Com
At the creation of this web page this was the largest search engine on the Internet. A great research and resource site for schools.

Kid-Friendly Search Engines
AOL for Kids
A safe age-appropriate environment for kids formatted in an appealing manner. A search engine that links only to sites that are safe for kids.

Lycos for Kids
This site has homework help, games and an area for parents and teachers.

Yahooligans
This web site is kid friendly and utilizes several search engines. It is easy to use and offers several interesting and fun sites for school age children.

Basic Search Engines
Alta Vista
A powerful search engine, that will do complex searches in a reasonable time frame. Alta Vista searches both the Web and the Usenet. It is somewhat complex but worth the effort.

Dogpile
A web resource that searches several popular search engines on the web. It is user friendly and offers an easy index to navigate.

Excite
Excite taps into traditional search engines by crawling the web. Search results are summarized and cross-referenced.

Infoseek
This site is easy to use and has an extensive catalogue section for subject oriented searching. The search results include the URL, the size of the document and the relevancy score.

Hotbot
Hotbot offers a comprehensive list of choices for indexed searching. Search results are displayed with title, relevancy ranking, summary, and date.

Lycos
This site has numerous search options, a comprehensive directory and good returns on simple requests. It has a large database and give comprehensive results.

Snap
Snap is user friendly. The index is easy to read and the links are easy to follow.

Webcrawler
Webcrawler offers shortcut links to other sites in addition to regular hits. The site offers good results.