The web is a vast and ever-growing information resource. Finding exactly the materials you're looking for can be difficult. The Schoolgrid Search page is designed to help you gain confidence in using the various search tools available, and improve the accuracy of your searches.
Recommended search tools
Click on the logos below to go to that search website, or enter a search request in the text fields and click the Search button...
Fast and efficient
UK
and Ireland edition of the original web index
Enter
searches as questions, good for younger children
Lively version of Yahoo! for younger children
Whatever happened to them
Extensive
and powerful search engine
Search the web by keywords and concepts
How search engines work...
Search engines do NOT find results by searching the internet itself. When you use a search engine you are searching through that search engine's database of websites.
Some search engines (such as excite) use special software that roams automatically across the web recording details of sites and pages back to the database. Although search engines of this type can be very powerful, they are best used for specific pieces of information.
For more general subject research another type of search engine - the web directory or index (such as Yahoo!) - may be better. A web directory's database is usually maintained and edited by people who organise web pages and subjects within the database.
