Filtering Searches and Narrowing Topics
What Matters in My Search Query?
Filtering Searches
Most search engines allow searches to be filtered by using Advanced Search features. Google searches, for example, can be narrowed by language, reading level, usage rights, etc. Begin searches with broad terms instead of specific questions. There are many search engines with different filtering formulas.
Search Engines
- Google – www.google.com
- AltaVista - www.altavista.com- Was around before Google
- Ask.Com - www.ask.com
- DogPile - www.dogpile.com- Searches other search engines and brings their results back to one place
- Clusty - http://yippy.com/ - Puts results into clusters by relevance
- Webcrawler - http://webcrawler.com - Metacrawler - searches other popular search engines for the top commercial and non-commercial entries. Less junk.
- BING - http://www.bing.com - Good for images.
- Infotopia - http://www.infotopia.info - Indexes only websites recommended by librarians, teachers, and educational and library consortia.
- Wolframalpha - wolframalpha.com
- Goofram - http://www.goofram.com/ - Search Google and Wolframalpha and the same time.
- SlashNGrab -http://www.slashngrab.co.uk/ this allows you to search the most popular sites on the web easily from one place. Simply type the name of the site you want to search, followed by a slash and the term that you're searching for.
- KidRex- http://www.kidrex.org/ - Owned by Google - Safer search for elementary kids.
- Boolify - http://www.boolify.org/- Simple search site that helps elementary students visualize results of search terms.
- SweetSearch - http://www.sweetsearch.com/ - Nice search engine, with divisions for educators, librarians, etc...
- Sweetsearch4me - www.4me.sweetsearch.com - For younger learners.
- SweetsearchBiographies - http://www.sweetsearch.com/biographies- Searches biographies.
- SweetsearchSocialStudies - http://www.sweetsearch.com/socialstudies - Search Social Studies topics
- FindingDulcinea - http://www.findingdulcinea.com - "Librarian of the Internet"
- DuckDuckGo - http://duckduckgo.com/ - New, popular, breaks the personalized "filter bubble" and gives every user the same result.
- Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/
- InstaGrok - http://www.instagrok.com/ - Search results in a concept map with adjustable difficulty level.