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=Google Revisited=

**How Google Works**
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 * [|Explore Google Search Features]** - Google's special features help you quickly find everyday information, use reference tools, choose keywords, search based on a location, search for health information, plan travel, and search by number.


 * [|Google Web Search - Classroom Lessons and Resources]**

Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between.
 * [|Google Guide] - Making Searching Even Easier**


 * [|Google Classroom Posters]**


 * [|Search Questions.doc]**


 * [|Bloom's Taxonomy and Web 2.0]**


 * [|36 Interesting Ways to Use Search Engines in the Classroom]**

New Google Tools

 * [|Google News Timeline]**
 * [|Google Fast Flip]** - combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.
 * [|Google Squared]** - helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify.

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Other Search Engines

 * [|Bing]**- (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine from Microsoft, inroduced in May, 2009. Bing is very visual and includes the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered and a list of related searches.


 * [|Take the Bing Tour]**


 * [|Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: Feature Smackdown]**


 * [|Bing vs. Google]** - compare Google and Bing results side by side

**[|Sweet Search]** - search engine for students. See [|Ten Steps to Better Web Research]
 * [|ChaCha]** - mobile question answering service.
 * [|LeapFish]** - Instead of competing with search engines such as Google or Yahoo, LeapFish harnesses their strengths and the strengths of other major online destinations such as Ebay, YouTube, Amazon and more in building the first multimedia search engine.
 * [|MelZoo]**- provides visual previews of search results pages.
 * [|Quintura]** - visual search engine based on word clouds
 * [|SearchCredible]** - search service that allows you to access 26 different search engines from one location. To use [|Search Credible] just enter your search term(s) then click on the search engine of your choice.[| Search Credible's] utility for teachers is that instead of having to tell students to go to multiple individual search engines it gives them one place to direct their students to. Teachers could use Search Credible as the basis for a comparison exercise in which students evaluate and compare different sources of information on the same topic.
 * [|Quintura for Kids]**
 * [|Sputtr]** - metasearch engine.
 * [|Triplify]** - search, compare and sort results from the main three engines - Google, Yahoo and Bing.
 * [|SpaceTime 3D]** - visual search returns.
 * [|Viewzi]**- visual search returns.
 * [|Wolfram Alpha]** - "the world's first computational knowledge engine." Be sure to watch the overview video and view the examples. Wolfram Alpha free resources for educators [|here].
 * [|Yippy]** - formerly Clusty, Yippy groups similar results together into "clouds" or collections of related information.


 * Image Search Engines**
 * [|Behold]** - visual image search engine for high quality Creative Commons images.
 * [|Google Image Swirl]** - here's a [|hands-on tour.]
 * [|Compfight] -** searches Flickr with option for finding only Creative Commons licensed images
 * [|Picsearch]**


 * Video Search Tool**
 * [|WatchKnow]-** index of over 15,000 online educational videos for children, reviewed by educators, in a directory of over 3,000 categories. Browse the directory or search by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness.