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About.com (formerly "The Mining Company") is a search engine that we have used frequently. One very nice feature of the About.com site is the specific site for education and education searching About.com has a person that manages different parts of its sites and they have both a K-6 and Secondary site for searching. To go to the main About.com site for education:
http://home.about.com/education/index.htm

For K-6, go to
http://k-6educators.about.com/education/k-6educators/mbody.htm

For Secondary, go to
http://7-12educators.miningco.com/education/7-12educators/

Choosing the correct search engine is one of the most difficult things to learn.  An accomplished Internet searcher can find information very quickly because the understand how the Internet is organized.  A tremendous resource for anyone searching the Internet is
Noodle Quest. a search strategy wizard.  This site is very helpful in selecting the appropriate search strategy and engine.  Before you search, go to
http://nuevaschool.org/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html
 

A search engine that is education specific is the Smart Zone. You can search for specific information and along with About.com, it is a good place to start your search.
http://school.edview.com/search/
 

A meta-search engine is the Dogpile search engine. Dogpile (I am not making up the name) uses several search engines at once, thus the name meta-search engine. If you want to do a very broad-based search across the broad expanse of the Internet, use Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/
 

AskJeeves is a relatively new search engine and promotes itself as very easy to use. With this search engine, you simply ask a question and the site helps to reorganize the words and ask several search engines to help.
http://www.askjeeves.com/
 

A search engine designed for Internet searching by children is Yahooligans.
http://www.yahooligans.com/

Another source for search engines for any purpose is found at the 50States.com site directory
http://www.50states.com/search.htm


A list of other search engines

Snap
http://www.snap.com/
 

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
 

Netscape Search
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/ntsrchrnd-8.html
 

Excite
http://www.excite.com
 

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com
 

Northern Lights
http://www.northernlight.com/
 

Google
http://www.google.com
 

Hotbot
http://www.hotbot.com
 

AOL Netfind
http://www.aol.com/netfind/
 

Infoseek
http://infoseek.go.com/
 


Since you are now going to be searching the Internet, you need to be aware of Internet frauds and computer virus myths, folklore and reality.

The following site will help you with Internet Fraud.
http://www.fraud.org/news/subject/subset.htm
 

There is also a site for alerting you about the latest Internet scams.
http://www.fraud.org/internet/intstat.htm
 

Computer viruses, folklore and myths are easy to find on the Internet but sometimes very hard to trust or verify. The About.com site has a place dedicated to urban legends and myths with specific information about virus hoaxes etc.
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/culture/urbanlegends/

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