Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet
By STEFANIE OLSEN, International Herald Tribune (Dec 25)
Search engines have been mainly designed for adults who are equipped to think up keywords. Children haven't reached that stage. Several search engines are trying to serve them better, and in doing so will probably help adults too.
"Children’s choices of search engines differ only slightly from the preferences of adults. Google ranks most popular among children, followed by Yahoo, Google Image search, Microsoft’s Bing and Ask.com, according to the research firm Nielsen. (Among adults, Bing is ahead of Google Image.) "
From this may come new and better visual aids and search prompts.
Posted by Gwen at December 29, 2009 02:44 AM