Yippy.com
_ Yippy.com formerly known as clusty.com “uses a clustering engine to group search results into folders that contain similar information” (Byerly & Brodie, 2006). The most important thing, it is free.
Today, many search engines such as Google.com allow anyone to search without restrictions and are not safe for families and students. With Yippy.com you can search without the paranoia of accidently stumbling upon inappropriate websites. While using the yippy desktop, you can still go to other search engines; however, you will still be restricted from accessing websites deemed inappropriate for students and educators.
When one searches for an item, a cluster will appear on the left hand side in the cloud structure. For instance, if you type in Oregon the cloud structure will break down other subtopics of Oregon such as University, beaches and animals. You can then see how many links there are for each subtopic in the cloud. You are also able to click on the “+” sign to find even more sub-sub topics and so on in the cloud.
This search engine also allows you to search through websites, news clippings, maps, blogs that are made public, Wikipedia findings and jobs. This search engine has also been designed to be used on smartphones as well as on the Nintendo Wii.
One of the most prominent features of this site is when you enter in an item in the search bar, the immediate first result tells you what part of speech the word or words belongs to. This is extremely helpful for students who can use this site to find parts of speech and to make sure they are typing in the word they actually mean. For instance, a student may be confused on how to use effect and affect, they could easily place each word into the search engine and discover which one they want to use without having to pull out and thumb through a dictionary.
Not only does this search engine use the cloud formation to break down your search and help you discover something you may not have known you were searching for, it also has a tab on the left side for sources, sites and time. Under sources you can choose where you want your information to come from; Wikipedia, yahoo.com, bing.com, NY times etc. Within the sites tab you can choose to only search for .com, .org, .gov, etc. sites to narrow your results down. Under the time tab you can choose when the information became available.
This search engine is designed for students, families and educators to keep everyone on track when searching for information without having to worry about unnecessary information or inappropriate information popping up in the results page. It is designed to keep everyone safe on the internet while still being able to search for information without being given results that are geared towards you due to "cookies" on your computer the way Google.com does.
Yippy.com is a search engine that is used in hundreds of libraries, elementary schools and universities as it provides safe searching. Yippy.com is sure to be an up and coming search engine in the education world. To view the video Yippy.com has put together in order to navigate the site easier, please visit http://yippy.com/what_is_yippy.asp
As an educator this website will be on the top of my list to use in the classroom. I found it to be a very useful website with regards to finding information and narrowing down my search results without being distracted by advertisements, sidebars and pop-ups. I even took the time to explain it to my roommate, who is an English high school teacher and she too agreed that this would be a very useful website for searching information on.
References:
Byerly, G., & Brodie, C. (2006). Search Engines--One More Time with Feeling. School Library Media Activities Monthly, 23(1), 37-39.
Today, many search engines such as Google.com allow anyone to search without restrictions and are not safe for families and students. With Yippy.com you can search without the paranoia of accidently stumbling upon inappropriate websites. While using the yippy desktop, you can still go to other search engines; however, you will still be restricted from accessing websites deemed inappropriate for students and educators.
When one searches for an item, a cluster will appear on the left hand side in the cloud structure. For instance, if you type in Oregon the cloud structure will break down other subtopics of Oregon such as University, beaches and animals. You can then see how many links there are for each subtopic in the cloud. You are also able to click on the “+” sign to find even more sub-sub topics and so on in the cloud.
This search engine also allows you to search through websites, news clippings, maps, blogs that are made public, Wikipedia findings and jobs. This search engine has also been designed to be used on smartphones as well as on the Nintendo Wii.
One of the most prominent features of this site is when you enter in an item in the search bar, the immediate first result tells you what part of speech the word or words belongs to. This is extremely helpful for students who can use this site to find parts of speech and to make sure they are typing in the word they actually mean. For instance, a student may be confused on how to use effect and affect, they could easily place each word into the search engine and discover which one they want to use without having to pull out and thumb through a dictionary.
Not only does this search engine use the cloud formation to break down your search and help you discover something you may not have known you were searching for, it also has a tab on the left side for sources, sites and time. Under sources you can choose where you want your information to come from; Wikipedia, yahoo.com, bing.com, NY times etc. Within the sites tab you can choose to only search for .com, .org, .gov, etc. sites to narrow your results down. Under the time tab you can choose when the information became available.
This search engine is designed for students, families and educators to keep everyone on track when searching for information without having to worry about unnecessary information or inappropriate information popping up in the results page. It is designed to keep everyone safe on the internet while still being able to search for information without being given results that are geared towards you due to "cookies" on your computer the way Google.com does.
Yippy.com is a search engine that is used in hundreds of libraries, elementary schools and universities as it provides safe searching. Yippy.com is sure to be an up and coming search engine in the education world. To view the video Yippy.com has put together in order to navigate the site easier, please visit http://yippy.com/what_is_yippy.asp
As an educator this website will be on the top of my list to use in the classroom. I found it to be a very useful website with regards to finding information and narrowing down my search results without being distracted by advertisements, sidebars and pop-ups. I even took the time to explain it to my roommate, who is an English high school teacher and she too agreed that this would be a very useful website for searching information on.
References:
Byerly, G., & Brodie, C. (2006). Search Engines--One More Time with Feeling. School Library Media Activities Monthly, 23(1), 37-39.