SweetSearch, A Search Engine for Students, recently turned two.
This milestone, plus a 600% increase in traffic this year, exploding awareness and an unending stream of effusive reviews, have given us plenty to celebrate.
But we're never content to rest on our laurels. In the past few months, we introduced SweetSearch4Me, a search engine for emerging learners, and integrated Yolink into each of our search engines to utterly transform student search.
By this summer, we'll introduce a fresh new look, additional functionality, and more partner link-ups, all of which will make SweetSearch an even better search engine for students.
But there is one more essential ingredient we need to add to SweetSearch.
That ingredient is you.
SweetSearch is the product of 150,000+ hours of research by the scores of staff research experts and educator consultants who created findingDulcinea's 700+ Web Guides and thousands of articles.
SweetSearch searches a "whitelist" comprised only of these 35,000 links that we included in findingDulcinea content, as well as sites we've since uncovered by sifting through published recommendations of librarians and teachers.
We've been fortunate to get to know thousands of educators who are as passionate and knowledgeable about quality educational content online as we are. We now seek to tap your passion, knowledge and direct experience by asking you to recommend high quality sites for ages 13+ (including sites useful for educators) to add to SweetSearch, and/or sites for ages 4-12 to add to SweetSearch4Me. Hundreds of great new educational Websites or content archives come online every month, and we can't catch them all without your help.
We'd also like to know if there are any sites in either search engine that you think we should delete. Also, we can "weight" sites, so please let us know if there are sites you think should generally appear higher or lower than they currently do.
We're not looking for quantity - we already have 35,000 sites! No, we're looking purely for quality - tell us about great sites that you've used yourself or with your students. Some terrific sites may cover a narrow topic or geographical area and thus may not have come across our radar.
Our only bright-line tests for rejecting a Website is when the site does not specify who published it, or when the advertisements are so intrusive that it's difficult to delineate between the content and advertisements. We look forward to reviewing any site that you recommend as useful for teachers and students to use.
To add you to the mix that is SweetSearch, please complete this Google Web Form.
Thank you!
CEO, Dulcinea Media
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