I still haven't found what I'm searching for (11 search engines you might not have heard of)

I think Bono said it best when he said, "I Still haven't found what I'm looking for"  he too must have had a computer lab full of 7th graders who were just assigned a research project. Often times students have a difficult time searching on the internet. From my experience my students know a few search websites: Google, Yahoo, more google,  and personal favorite that I found one of my students using once elgoog.com  As educators we often know of only the major search engines but these search engines can often times be overwhelming for our students. My students with disabilities can be overwhelmed or impatient and and begin clicking and copying and pasting.  Below are some links to other search engines that can help better organize information for our students. Especially for students with disabilities. The search engines listed below can help better organize searches for our students with disabilities. Also, these search engines can be used for students with reading deficits or our students who learn better visually.

Yippy - Yippy has the ability to categorize search results into clouds which can  better help students organize their searches. The organization of clouds may prove valuable to students with disabilities to help organize their searches and their thoughts.
Quinturakids - Visual; shows results in clouds with categories for students to click on , interactive design for children. Students can search for web images and video.

Search-Cube is a search engine that shows visual pictures and videos in a unique 3 dimensional view.  Search cube has visuals which might prove to be beneficial for students with reading deficits. 

Viewzi - Very flexible search engine where one can choose how to view the search results. You can choose to have results shown in a power grid, a tag cloud, and simple text. These are just a few ways that one can choose to view their search terms. This is a very advanced flexible search engine. This search engine may prove to be very beneficial for some students with disabilities due to the wide range of possibilities to view your search terms.  I would caution that the amount of choices might overwhelm and hinder students with Attention Deficit Disorder.

Kosmix  -  is a  social search engine that organizes and categorizes material into subsets  of articles, videos, images, etc. .. This  is very flexible and searches are displayed in an organized way.

Allexperts -  Experts answer questions about information in their field. Though answers may not be immediate students can get answers from a live professional. This could benefit students with disabilities by making their searches meaningful and concrete.

Mahalo - Mahalo is a people run search engine. Instead of using some type of indexing software actual people update and answer questions on the search engine. Also you can search for how to videos, and searches usually contain pictures, text, and video. I really enjoyed evaluating the how to videos. I think that these step by step directions are sequential and can chunk the information together.

Google Scholar -  Google  scholar is a search engine where one  can search for scholarly articles and peer reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles.

50matches.com -  This is  Social Search engine. This search Engine works with Social bookmarking  sites and  leads the user towards websites that people have personally tagged. Again, I think that tagging can help our students with disabilities better organize and categorize their information.

Pics4Learning -  copyright friendly image search engine for students and teachers


http://www.blinkx.com/ - Blinx is a video search engine that has a great feature where you can view all of the  video search in a wall format. This would be a great way for students to organize what they are seeing on Screen.

I hope that with these search engines that you too can find what you  are looking  for.