Search+Engines

What is a search engine? It is a program that helps you search for information on the internet.

Google is one of the most well known search engines, but it is not necessarily recommended for academic research. **Anyone can post anything on Google. You can not be guaranteed that it will be true.**

These search engines are RECOMMENDED. They are __ totally reliable __ because they were created by and for educators:
 * **AcademicIndex** -
 * ** [|FindingDulcinea] ** presents only credible, high-quality and trustworthy Web sites, saving time for the novice and the experienced user alike.
 * **Infotopia** - **an //__online search engine__// that goes only to sites that have been pre-approved by educators. This is an AWESOME source for easy and reliable research.**
 * **Sweet Search** Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts. Other options available from Sweet Search:
 * Visit [|**SweetSearch Biographies**] for profiles of 1,000+ significant people.
 * Visit [|**SweetSearch Social Studies**] for our best social studies content.

Other options: >> For more advanced searchers, there is even and **Advanced Cheat Sheet** for **Google**.
 * **Ask.com**- this is an easy to use, exceptional search engine
 * ** Bing.com ** This is a **very graphic and user-friendly** search engine.
 * **Dogpile.com** (a metasearch)
 * ** Google.com ** - one of the most popular and user-friendly search engines.
 * ** [|Google a Day]- this game posts a daily question requiring players to search Google to find the answers. This could be a fun way to teach your students how to conduct an effective search. See these [|lesson plans] and [|past challenges] to get started. **
 * ** Searching Google **- This link gives a wide range of cool tools to use for an accurate search. How to use sites, Boolean operators, key words, etc.
 * **Hints** on how to best **utilize Google** can be found here . The hints found here can be used in many other search engines as well.
 * ** What is [|Google Scholar]? ** Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for **scholarly literature**. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
 * **[|USA.gov] ** is the U.S. federal government's official web portal. This search engine searches 180,000,000+ federal and state government web pages.
 * [|Wolfram|Alpha] - a "**computational** knowledge engine" - introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers— not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.