There are so many options to search on the internet and it is difficult to believe how little cross over there is at times. I thought Twurdy was a great search engine. I liked how it provided information about ease of reading and suitable ages.I also love Wolfram Alpha - I have used this quite a bit at home with my children, particularly for Maths and Science. I hadn't visited many of the search engines that you mentioned, but have now and will again. Blekko was one I hadn't heard of and I discovered that Podscope no longer exists. Some of the other search engines I like to use are search-cube, yometa, quadoople, boolify, and spezify. I try to introduce my students to a variety of search engines, but it is hard to break their habit (and their teachers) of "googling".
Oooh you've got some good ones there! And it's so encouraging to hear that someone is concertedly addressing that issue even if they still Google all the time, at least there is an awareness of other engines and how search works thanks to you :)
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