You Can Build Your Own Search Engine

Earlier this week I received an email from someone who had found the custom video search engine that I built last summer. The person who em...

Updated - A Search Engine for Videos Not On YouTube

A few weeks ago I created a Google Custom Search Engine for videos that are not hosted on YouTube. You can find the search engine on this pa...

A YouTube-free Video Search Engine

Yesterday, I shared a list of 43 educational alternatives to YouTube . At the suggestion of quite a few people, I put all of those sites int...

How to Create Your Own Custom Search Engine

I've posted directions for creating your own Google Custom Search Engine in the past. Since the last time I published those directions G...

How to Create a Custom Search Engine - Updated

A couple of weeks ago I shared directions on how to create a custom search engine. Shortly after I published those directions Google revampe...

How to Create Your Own Search Engine

Yesterday, Google published a new visual explanation of how Google Search works . The Story of Search is part of the Inside Search website w...

Flashcard Flash - A Flashcard Search Engine

Flashcard Flash  is a handy little search engine designed for one purpose, helping you find sets of publicly shared flashcards. Flashcard Fl...

Searchy Pants - A Safe Search Engine for Kids

EdCamp Boston was held on Saturday and even though I couldn't make it in person, I did follow along with some of the Posterous updates a...

SMART Notebook Search Engine

Google Custom Search allows anyone to create his or her own search engine. The benefit of this is that you can create a very subject specif...

Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research

As we know, the Internet is a great place to find information on anything that sparks your curiosity. Likewise, the web is a great resource ...

Sweet Search - A Search Engine for Students

Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and re...

How to Create a Custom Search Engine

If you work in a school that uses strict web filtering you and your students know the frustration of conducting a search only to have many o...