Search Engines - Going Beyond Google
Finding Dulcinea & Sweet Search - Results are all prescreened by a human. Web guides are developed around search topics. Sites will have a description prepared by staff. Sweet Search is a branch of Finding Dulcinea developed for students
Duck Duck Go - This is a search engine that give instant answers and is has less spam & clutter. Another plus is that it will not track and store your search. You have more privacy
Twurdy - This is a search engine that rates the reading level of the search results list. A color scale is located not he right side of the screen. The darker the color, the higher the reading level. The lighter the color the easier the reading material. Powered by Bing.
Quintura for Kids - This is a visual search engine
Quintura - Like Quintura for Kids, but made for adults
Searchy Pants - "Searchy Pants is a simple and safe internet search engine for families, children, and pupils. Searchy Pants allows children & parents & schools to create a custom search home pages for their child to use and allows families to easily communicate by leaving custom messages. Schools can also use Search Pants to showcase pupils work while providing a safe search experience." Based in the United Kingdom.
Glean - Glean Learning Tools are free information literacy, data literacy and math teaching tools produced by Public Learning Media. Inc., and educational technology 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization.
Pandia Search Central - This is a United Kingdom based site. Instead of looking for indexed documents, images or videos, their search engine looks for semantic web objects such as a person, event or date.
Mashpedia - Actually it's not an encyclopedia like wikipedia and it's not exactly a search engine either. "Mashpedia is a real-time visual board for millions of topics. It fetches online content from different web services and assembles them on the fly in a convenient interface. Mashpedia makes it easy to visually, monitor, learn and explore digital contents about any topic."
Wolfram Alpha - This is described as a computational knowledge engine rather than a search engine. "Wolfram/Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone". Wolfram/Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers, not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.