Thanks to Bonnie Peirce, our facilitator, for sharing the partial list below. Her intent was to help motivate the librarians to engage media learners that come into the library. 

Bookmarks for Web 2.0: Applications for Children’s Services

Search Engines for Children

Quintura for Kids

http://kids.quintura.com/
A visual and intuitive search engine with interactive tag clouds using the cloud-result search technology, See & Find.  Five pre-set searches for science, games, TV, music, and animals.  Simple search query box and interactive tag clouds arrange topics into groups and subgroups for easy browsing. Search results based on Yahoo Safe Search Results.

Ask for Kids

http://www.askforkids.com/

A search engine using natural language technology which allows children to ask questions and search by selecting from a list of questions related to the topic in which they are interested. Quick links to reference resources, games, and news resources.

Yahoo Kids

            http://kids.yahoo.com/

Formerly Yahooligans. Search and Browse kid-friendly sites and media appropriate for children in grades 2-7.

Google Safe Search

            http://www.google.com

Basic search box for searching the web. Select preferences to set Safe Search filtering options for explicit text and images. For guide to special search features, visit Google Help Center: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

 Custom Search Engine Design Tools

Google Custom Search Engine

http://google.com/coop/cse/

Create a customized search engine for your web page or blog tailored to the topics and sources you value utilizing google. Customize the look, specify the sites to include in searches, and invite people to contribute to your tailored search engine. Free and easily done in two easy steps. You must create a google account or have a gmail account to use.

Rollyo

            http://www.rollyo.com

Create a custom search engine by restricting the sites searched to those you trust. No programming involved. Customize the layout, add blogs and news sites, and add sites to your search engine on the fly by installing the Rollbar bookmarklet in your browser.