One of the reasons that some teachers like to create their custom search engines is so that they can control which websites appear when their students search. You can also control how many sites appear in a search result by …
100 Search Engines For Academic Research
Check out our new, up-to-date collection to discover the very best search engine for finding the academic results you’re looking for.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/100-search-engines-for-academic-research/#…
10 Free Tools for Everyday Research
This article will explore some digital resources to provide educators with tools to help all students become savvy searchers and independent learners.
http://gettingsmart.com/blog/2012/09/10-free-tools-everyday-research/…
Google Search Education – teach your students to search better
Google Search Education is another great educational resource from Google. The site has lesson plans and even live training to help students, and teachers, learn how to search for academic sources, as well as develop critical and independent thinking skills.…
The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers and Students
Discover amazing tips to improve your students search skills and prepare them for the 21st Century Digital World.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/03/entire-google-search-feature-for.html…
Google Search Revamp: A Step Closer to Artificial Intelligence
Google is again trying to redefine what it means to search for information on the Web and get closer to delivering on its mission statement to “organize the world’s information” and make it accessible. It may also get us closer …
Get More Out Of Google: Tips and Tricks for Students Conducting Online Research
A great list of tips and tricks on how students can get more of Google.
http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html…
Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know
A great list of interesting tricks for teachers and students to improve their online searching skills.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/11/ten-search-tools-and-tactics-teachers.html…
Social-Search: Search links shared by friends on Twitter & Facebook
Are you trying to revisit a link a friend shared on Facebook or Twitter? If yes, then you can use a neat search engine that searches links your friends shared on Facebook and Twitter. This search engine is called Social-Search.
Attachments.me Puts A Visual, Social Spin On Email Attachment Search
Searching Gmail for attachments is basically awful. Because everything in Gmail is so text-based, searches yield results that are also text-based. But what if there was a Google Image-like search option for attachments? And what if it was one that
Google Give Searchers ‘Instant Previews’ of Result Pages
Google is trying to save users from the back-click button, by giving them the option to see a visual preview of the page they are thinking of clicking on.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-instant-previews/
Meshin: A Semantic Search Engine For Your E-Mails
Sorting, searching, and making sense through thousands of e-mails can be very messy. Even if powerful e-mail clients today like GMail and Outlook can handle being your conversation assistant, you still end up spending more time searching past e-mails to
Search For Similar Images Online Using Images Rather Than Keywords
The ways we search for information online are constantly evolving. One of the most interesting (comparatively) new methods currently being developed by companies around the web revolves around the idea of using images as a basis for search queries.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/search-similar-images-online-images-keywords/
Search Takes a Social Turn
After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web pages to answer every conceivable query — many people now prefer getting their online information the old-fashioned way: by yakking across the fence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13search.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimestech …
Tips and Tricks for Finding Science and Math Images on the Web
Like everything else on the Internet, trying to find images is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Without the right tools for finding science and math images on the web it is often an impossible, or at
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