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Search Engines for Kids
by Lawrence J. Magid
As kids get older, they also start to learn to use
search engines like Yahoo, Lycos, Google, AltaVista and Excite. These
sites are great for finding tons of interesting Internet sites, but they
can also locate places where you might not want your kids to go.
There are, however, search engines designed just for
kids.
Yahooligans,
which is operated by Yahoo, contains only sites that have been handpicked
as safe.
Ask
Jeeves
for Kids has the same natural language query engine as the
general version but unlike the main site, it brings up only sites that
meets the company's child friendly guidelines. Kids can "Ask Jeeves"
general questions like "who is president of South Africa" and
get links to sites about Nelson Mandela, apartheid and other related
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