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Digital Literacy: Resource 2: Alternative Search Engines

By following this guide on digital literacy, users will be able to communicate, use and apply digital technology in multiple formats presented via computers and perform tasks effectively in a digital environment.

These alternative search engines are high quality search engines without any advertising.

iSEEK

iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers. You can search hundreds of trusted resources from universities, government, and established noncommercial providers. 
 

Vadlo Life Science Search Engine

VADLO provides a powerful search tool dedicated to the life sciences. Search for forums, cartoons, protocols, tools, PowerPoint presentations, and products, all geared to support any life science project. The PowerPoint presentations include biomedical and medical research.

Virtual LRC

The Virtual Learning Resources Center allows you to explore educational sites with high-quality information. It has indexed thousands of academic information websites. 

WolframAlpha

This search engine is an 'answer engine', which answers queries directly based on the search terms, instead of providing a list of results. 

Refseek

This academic search engine removes results that are not related to science, academia and research and removes sponsored links.  Refseek has a database of over one billion documents, web pages, books, journals, newspapers, online encyclopedias and articles.

Boardreader

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.