Safe Searches...... Just not Good Searches

October 13, 2008

So you are a teacher and you want your students to perform research on the Internet. But you are faced with 2 problems. First, you want your K-12 students to be safe and stay away from sites that are inappropriate. Well, Im sure that your school has some sort of filter or firewall in place to prevent those bad sites from popping up, even accidentally, right? This always sound good on paper, but in practice, your students are going to search using Google, Yahoo or some other major search engine, and maybe they will have the foresight to turn on safe search, but even with all those precautions, they are likely to find inappropriate sites (or links to sites) quite by accident using keywords that on the surface seem completely innocent. The second problem you face is the unbelievable amount of bad or inaccurate information that is on the Internet. After all, you dont want your students using sources on the Internet that are wrong do you? So, short of telling your students the exact sites to use for their sources, what are you to do?

Well, there is a solution that will give your students the experience they need tracking down quality source materials on the Internet as well as keeping them safe from sites that spam search engine keywords to appear safe. I would like to introduce you to Edusafe.us and the US K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine. The Edusafe.us website and our search engine was created to solve these two problems.

So, how do we do it? The first and most important key to solving these problems was to limit the search engine to searching sites that are only of very high educational value. We have accomplished this by making the US K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine a collaborative effort whereby all K-12 educators are invited to submit sites for inclusion in the search database. The sites that are submitted are reviewed by the Edusafe.us staff to weed out any potential SPAM and are then added to the database of sites. This by itself is enough to ensure that the search engine is not only safe but highly relevant to teachers and students all across America. But we have taken it one step further. Since the US K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine is powered by Googles Custom Search Engine, we are able to enforce a always on strict safe search. So, just in case something inappropriate does slip by our editorial staff, it will likely be stopped by Google. These two facts make Edusafes US K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine one of the safest and most educationally relevant search engines on the Internet today!

Edusafes US K-12 Teacher - Student Safe Search Engine is a awesome resource for teacher and students right now, but we can always use more contributors. Please feel free to use the search engine for all of your educational needs and if you have sites that you want added to the database, just send us an e-mail with their addresses. Its just that easy. More detailed information can be found at our web site.

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