Sweet Search

Sweet Search is a search engine designed with students in mind.  Sweet Search searches and evaluates material suitable for students from a variety of teacher, librarian, and expert approved websites.


Try it yourself.  Search for something:




Here is what sweetsearch.com says about themselves:
It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content onfindingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.




SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only the spam sites that many students could spot, but also the marginal sites that read well and authoritatively, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that appear on the first page of SweetSearch results are often buried on other search engines.


What does Sweet Search offer:
There will be a bit of a learning curve for your students with navigating through Sweet Search's findings that you will want to educate your students before unleashing them into their own research.  When launching a search on a topic Sweet Search highlights all of the words used in your search, making it easier to filter through the articles.  For each site that is found, below it are text snippets from the website that contain the words used in your search.  Click on the body of these snippets and a preview widow will pop up displaying what that snippet looks like in context to the actual site.  Move your cursor down through the snippets and watch the preview widow change as well.


Sweet search also has checkboxes on each site snippet, allowing the searcher select the sections they want to review.  But wait, there's more.  Sweet Search offer a Firefox Add-on.  Simply click on the "Add-on" button at the top.