November 15, 2009

Visual Search Engines

The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners by Larry Ferlazzo, AltSearchEngines (Nov14)

I'm not sure these are necessarily the best engines for people who are new to English, but they are all interesting.

Have a mix of search engines designed for students:

+ Study Search in Australia created from Google Custom Search

+ Boolify - work with images to create boolean queries.

Some form of visualization of search results"

+ Eyeplorer - graphical knowledge engine.

+ Carrot - thematic categories
+ Quinitura
+ Viewzi - select different views
+ Middlespot - many thumbnails and ways to adjust display.

And one that expedites viewing results

+ Melzoo - preview page in side panel. Very fast.

Posted by Gwen at November 15, 2009 01:25 PM