Search Engines

Filtered Search Engines CAUTION: Use of a filtered search engine does NOT guarantee that the user will not still encounter material or sites they might consider offensive. The library district makes no guarantees as to the effectiveness of these filtered search engines in blocking materials that may be construed as pornographic, violent, or in some other way offensive to the user.	Unfiltered Search Engines The list of search engines below is comprised of search engines that are not filtered. Users may find links to sites, images, and/or materials they might consider offensive by using the unfiltered search engines.
Ask Jeeves for Kids - only sites that are not listed on the SurfWatch blocked list are listed in the results of a search.	Ask Jeeves
KidsClick! - Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories	Alta Vista
TekMom - 26 search tools including encyclopedias, dictionaries, maps, biographies and more.	Go!
Google Safe Search - sites and web pages containing adult themed and explicit sexual content are excluded from web search results.	Google
Education World - A database of 56,000 sites.	HotBot
Family Friendly Search - searches Yahooligans, AOL Kids, Saluki, and Kids Click at the same time.	Lycos
ZeekSearch - All-in-one search page for a variety of kid-oriented sites. Includes the ability to do meta search at AltaVista (filtered) and Ask Jeeves For Kids.	Metacrawler MonsterCrawler.com
Kids Search Tools - a link with 17 filtered search engines on one page.	Yahoo!

Below is a list of popular search engines. We have provided links to both filtered and unfiltered search engines so that our patrons may choose the search engine that is most appropriate to their needs.

Unfiltered Search Engines

The list of search engines below is comprised of search engines that are not filtered. Users may find links to sites, images, and/or materials they might consider offensive by using the unfiltered search engines.