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Kid-Friendly Search Environments
Three places designed to provide children and families with a safe and
appropriate Internet searching environment.
Kido’z KidRex
Quintura for Kids
The user interface of Kido'z is KidRex is a kid-safe search engine
Quintura for Kids is a visual search
designed to be used by children as powered by Google custom search.
engine designed for kids. Quintura
young as three. Children can KidRex uses a combination of
uses a combination of icons and
navigate Kido'z using kid-friendly Google's safe search mode and
text to provide students with an
icons. Kido'z tries to make content their own database of filtered
easy way to search for information
easy to find by dividing it into keywords, phrases, and websites to
on the Internet. By placing their
three categories games, videos, provide a family friendly search
mouse pointer on a word or
and websites. environment.
picture, students will see
Kido'z gives parents the power to In the event that a questionable
subcategories from which to select
select the websites that their website does get past the filters,
information.
children can view. After installing KidRex has a site removal request
With a minimum of direct
Kido'z, parents set an form.
instruction, young students can
administrative password and begin
specifying the websites that their
You can find KidRex at http://
begin searching the web. Quintura
children see.
www.kidrex.org/
provides a good platform for
introducing students to searching
If parents are looking for new web
for information on the Internet.
content that their children can
If you would like to try creating You can find Quintura at http://
safely enjoy, Kido'z will offer
your own kid-safe search engine, quinturakids.com
suggestions based on the age,
you can do so by using the Google
gender, and native language of the
Custom Search creator. It’s free
child.
and available to anyone that has a
You can find Kido’z by pointing
Google account. You can find the
your browser to http://kidoz.net
Google Custom Search Engine
creator at http://
www.google.com/cse/
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