Category: Online search tools and services

Like their parents and teachers, most kids use Google to find their way online. But there are plenty of great search engines made especially for children out there. Here is a list of the top 5 search engines for kids.

These child friendly search engines all search safe content, often indexes of content of particular interest to children, so you know the kids don’t stumble upon unsavory content.

A great search engine for kids also has a user interface that is easy to navigate and that appeals to children. This is my favorite part of researching search engines for children: You get to see innovative and user friendly search interfaces and neat presentation of search results.

Last week, the new LeapFish was unveiled: A multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform. The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: “Real Time” and “Search Web”.

Google has added a new service for its Google Account holders that gives them an overview over all the Google services they have signed up for.

Google Books, the search engine giant’s book search tool, contains more than books. Google is also in the process of scanning new and old magazines to be included in the database.

Social search is web search aided in some way by social networks. Google (NSDQ:GOOG) launched its own social search this week. Who else is on this scene and how can social search help you find what you are looking for?

What kind of sites came into consideration for this short list of great social search engines? I have not been looking at sites that simply index social networks. I’m not looking for simply for information from social networks. I want search tools for general web search powered by information from social networks.

The sites on this list all search information that has been recommended by someone, and to some degree this recommendation influences the way the search results are listed. This brand of search engine give you search results that appeal to real people, not just search engine spiders.

Google adds links to online music and plans opening an ebooks store.

There is a huge and growing number of cooking sites available along with recipe search engines and sites for sharing recipes. Enter RecipeBridge.com, a vertical search engine for recipes.

The real time web is the focus of much attention right now. Social media in general and micro blogging in particular has seen to this: Huge amounts of current information is available for free. Web entrepreneurs are mining this inexhaustible source of updated news and opinions.

Sency is a real time search engine that offers search results to o, a free private labeled feed for websites and blogs. This feed can be embedded on your website or blog to show a scrolling ticker which will publish real time results for the query of your choice.