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www.zoo.com is a new child-friendly search engine which filters out a lot of inappropriate content and purposely has no image search. We have featured it on our Website of the Week and would welcome feedback. (Click on comments below)
Mandy
Had a look at zoo.com, and I like it. It would be good to see this as the home page for primary schools. Perhaps we can pass this to e-safety for their consideration?
It certainly looks interesting, but (as you state in your review on the Kent site), there are lots of sponsored links mixed in with the search results, which get in the way a little. A random search for "fried eggs" came up with a sponsored link to women's clothing on ebay! Will try it at school and see what the children think.
Zoo does look great- Don't forget also you could use: Ask Jeeves for Kids - www.askforkids.com or Yahooloigans- http://kids.yahoo.com Both of these are safe search engines for children and neither can find any material on fried eggs.
How much time did anyone else waste looking up Mark's fried egg links? just me, then?
LOL Heather What do you think of Zoo?
Forgetting the fried eggs - I tried searching Tudors (this term's topic) and WW2 (next term) in both Zoo and Ask Jeeves for kids. Tudor Life in Zoo gave me a DVD about Peter Sellers in third position - bizarre. WW2 gave that Woodlands site we know so well :-) "WW2 kids" gave all sorts of links including several blogs - the replies seemed to be much wider spread than on ask jeeves. I think I'd rather search zoo myself than let the kids loose in it - but it did throw up a few sites I hadn't come across, so thank you!
I guess there isn't a perfect search site for children. Google is my favourite. Most people do not know about turning on the safe search on Google under the preferences link. I still would not let kids loose on it though. Adult supervision is a must. Mandy