Greetings, INSTAGROK is a new, specialized, education friendly search engine. Today’s site, INSTAGROK bills itself as an “intelligent web search engine” designed to help students, teachers, (anyone) find educational content. It’s the educational part that differentiates INSTAGROK from general purpose search engines like Google or Yahoo. But, ...

Greetings, SHAKESPEAR SEARCHED is a specific search engine which only searches the works of Shakespear Today’s offering — SHAKESPEAR SEARCHED — is a subject specific search engine meaning it’s searches are specific to a certain subject area or topic. In this case it’s the works of William Shakespear. While SHAKESPEAR SEARCHED may be unique in ...

Greetings, SCIRUS is a specific search engine which focuses on Science related information. Another specific search engine for your consideration. This one is called SCIRUS and focuses on science related information. Once again, Google is the main styling influence for the search engine home page with the name at the top and the search box [...]

Greetings, PIPL is a specialized search engine that looks for people. I’m doing a presentation next week on digital literacy/safety. Part of it involves steps and suggestions for maintaining individual privacy. I don’t think everyone realizes how much information is available on the next. The test I used to use to prove my point [...]

Greetings, WATCHILY is a specialized search engine that scans the Internet, looking for movies and TV episodes. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Lot’s of people enjoy watching TV shows or movies as a way to relax and with the multitude of delivery methods such the Internet, cable, satellite and means such as cable [...]

Greetings, PEAKYOU is a specialized search engine which looks for people. PEAKYOU is a people specific search engine created by the same folks that who made the “Rate My Teacher” and “Rate My Professor” sites. As a search site, PEAKYOU has some nice features like a wide variety of search categories (“People Search”, “Username”, “Work”, [...]

Greetings, FLICKR STORM is a Flickr Specific Search Engine that claims to be a “better search for Flickr” Flickr is probably the largest photo repository on the Internet, containing millions of images. That’s the good news. The bad news is, only some of those images are available under a creative commons sharing licence. That quickly [...]

Greetings, ZUNAL is a wonderful, feature — rich app for creating WebQuests. In a former life, I used to be a Teacher/Librarian or Library Media Specialist as they’re known in the US. Part of my job involved creating “Pathfinders”. These were printed sheets on popular research topics such as, “Early Explorers”, “Causes of World War [...]

Greetings, PEARLTREES is a new kind of social bookmarking application. Imagine what might happen if a social bookmarking app like Diigo were mashed-up with a mind-mapping app like Bubbl.us or Mindmeister. Congratulations, you have just visualized today’s offering, PEARLTREES. PEARLTREES — is essentially a social bookmarking app much like Diigo ...

Greetings, FOOFIND is a specialized search engine which combs the Net looking for files. I hesitated before including todays app, FOOFIND. It’s a specialized search engine which scans the Web for files rather then text or search terms. To do that, FOOFIND searches or employes several peer to peer files sharing technologies such as BitTorrent ...