Kid friendly search engines; Safe search engines for kids and family

Children are used to the huge possibilities of the internet. Internet is part of their lives and their expectation of the possibilities is growing. Therefore it is very important that both parents and teachers are sufficiently aware about these possibilities but also about the risks that are involved. The amount of pornograpic and racism related material is dramatically increasing on the web. Kids can be faced with this offensive and shocking material while surfing the web. A recent survey showed that over half of the parents worry about this situation. And the way to right (or incidentally wrong) information often is initiated by search engines.

Therefore Whitelines.net offers you a list of genuine child friendly search engines. These services are (in all cases) directories with human compiled and reviewed information. Information that is safe for kids and families.

Important note to parents and teachers: These sites, as far as we know, will not return sexually explicit, violent or hateful content. If you find any problems with any sites on this page, please let us know immediately so we can investigate. Likewise, if you find other search engines that should be listed, please let us know.

Ajkids.com is the child friendly version of the famous Ask Jeeves search engine. You can just ask the question you want to ask and the websites in the search results contain the answer. Ajkids.com delivers child and family friendly results from their own database but also results from other (external) search engines. These results are filtered as much as possible. Please be aware of the fact that AskJeeves Kids allows commercial banners.

Beritsbest.com is a directory with safe, recommended websites for children in the ages up to 12 years old. Every site is reviewed manually and is rated from 1 to 5.

Blinde-kuh.de is a extensive web portal with a childfriendly, human edited directory in the German language. This site deserves our recommendation for those kids that can read the German language.

Cybersleuth-kids.com is a dedicated search engine for students. CyberSleuth-Kids is the creation of the hard work of a teacher and the volunteers that make this site possible. The goal of CyberSleuth-Kids is to provide a safe educational online database of links to help the student sift through the maze of information. Banners!

Giraffen.dk is a directory with over 2.000 Church-related websites and 85.000 homepages from Denmark. This site shows commercial banners!

Jabuti.com (jSearch) is a directory for kids only with over 3.150 manually reviewed websites.

Kidtastic.com is a searchable directory for kids. It offers information in the French, German, Italian and Spanish languages too. Please be aware of the fact that Kidtastic.com allows commercial banners.

Kidsclick.org is a site created by Librarians with a great list of sites organized alphabetically OR by subject! You can also find excellent tutorials here for kids on how to search the internet!

Netwijs.nl is a small directory for child friendly information in the Dutch language. At the moment of inclusion in Whitelines.net Netwijs.nl had about 1.350 websites listed.

Yahooligans.com is the child friendly version of the famous Yahoo! portal and search engine. It features comprehensive safe surfing, games, homework help, and many kid friendly activities. Yahooligans.com is available since 1996 and targets kids from 7 to 14. All search results are manually reviewed and therefore safe! Be informed: Yahooligans uses commercial popup advertisements.