Search Engines For Kids

Yahooligans    http://www.yahooligans.com/
Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996.

ALA Great Web Site for Kids    http://www.ala.org/greatsites
An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous guidelines. 

Looksmart's Kids Directory   http://search.netnanny.com/?pi=nnh3&ch=kids
The Kids Directory is listing of over 20,000 kid friendly websites that were hand picked by employees of the Looksmart subsidiary, Net Nanny.

KidsClick!    http://www.kidsclick.org/
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

Diddabdoo    http://www.dibdabdoo.com/
Ad free, non-commercial directory of web sites designed for child-safe searching.

Fact Monster    http://www.factmonster.com/
Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.

Family Source    http://www.family-source.com/
This focused crawler-based service has indexed nearly 1 million kid-friendly URLs.

Other Interesting Kid-Searches

FirstGov for Kids    http://www.kids.gov/
From the U.S. Federal Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, grouped by subject.

ThinkQuest Library    http://www.thinkquest.org/library/
featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.