Search Engines & Web Portals

• The Awesome Library has 14,000 resources in eight subject areas. The resources have been reviewed for their quality and age appropriateness.
• Ask Jeeves!: This search engine lets you search the Internet by entering simple questions. (The techno-cognoscenti refer to this as natural language querying.)
• Ask Jeeves for Kids: A search engine that targets younger children.
• Altavista: One of the Internet's most comprehensive search engines.
• Education World: A search engine and index of over 100,000 education-related sites.
• Google ranks your search results by relevance; probably the Web's best search engine.
• Metacrawler: When you conduct a search on this page, the underlying software actually sends your query to several search engines at once.
• Virginia's Community of Learning is a Web learning portal that provides a vast collection of educational resources.
• Yahoo: An Internet search engine that conveniently categorizes Web sites.
• Yahooligans: Yahoo for children.

This page was updated on April 4, 2005.