iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine compiling hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers. It provides time-saving intelligent search and a personal Web-based library to help you locate the most relevant results immediately and find them quickly later.

Reasons to use iSEEK Education

Safety guaranteed. Protecting children is becoming harder in a virtual world. While the Web offers students greater access to high-quality information than any generation before them, there’s also a lot of inappropriate material out there. iSEEK Education incorporates safe search technologies and editorial review to ensure results are safe and reputable. Rest assured that iSEEK’s K-12 Internet users are receiving only age-appropriate search results.

Authoritative resources. Gathered from thousands of trusted educational sources, iSEEK Education resources are selected for quality and subject to review by leading educators. iSEEK Education also searches deeper than traditional engines to produce the most specific and relevant results. Finally, the bank of resources is evaluated and updated at a rate of several hundred links each week, creating a dynamic search experience as up-to-date as the Web itself.

iSEEK understands. Finding the right keywords can be tricky, especially in a statistics-based search that has no idea who you are or what you’re looking for. iSEEK Education, with advanced linguistic, conceptual, and AI technologies, is different. It knows that you are looking for education-related materials, and it understands the meaning embedded in the questions you ask. As a result, it returns the most relevant, useful, and meaningful results every time. You no longer have to strategically select keywords then add to them, revise them, and search again in hopes of getting better results—simply ask questions and get answers.

iViews make sense. iViews categorize your results by focusing on you, not on statistics. With iViews, you can see topics and themes in your results, target your subject and grade level, and more. Click an iView to narrow your results, or mouse over a title to highlight the iView categories associated with it. See at a glance whether a link leads to a worksheet or a lesson plan, and if it’s intended for sixth grade or tenth. The first “i” in iViews stands for “intelligent,” and you can rely on them to do a little more “thinking” about your search, so you can do a little less work.

Web-based bookmarks go everywhere. iSEEK lets you bookmark anything you can find on the Web—Web sites, blogs, videos, PDFs, worksheets created in Word, and more! Simply click the bookmark icon to add a link to your personal library of favorites. Organizing your bookmarks into personal categories is easy on the iSEEK homepage. By logging in to iSEEK, you’ll open up this dynamic library and dashboard of organization tools. You can build your library on any browser, on any computer, and return home to find your virtual world of resources waiting for you there, too. You have a library in your house, in your community, and another in your school—isn’t it time you had one that can go anywhere you go?

MySEEK bookmark search. Finding bookmarks and favorites is easy with MySEEK bookmark search. In addition to browsing your bookmarks on the iSEEK homepage, you can search directly against your bookmarks to target particular information or resources you know you’ve found before. No more scrolling through hundreds of bookmarks to find the one you swear you saved—let MySEEK do the hunting for you!

Quality results. iSEEK has gathered its Authoritative Resources from thousands of trusted educational sources and all its resources are subject to review by leading educators in all fields. iSEEK Education also looks deeper than traditional engines, which just skim the surface of the web, to produce the most specific and relevant results available. Finally, the bank of resources provided is evaluated and updated at a rate of several hundred per day, creating a dynamic search experience as up-to-date as the Web itself.  Source: iSEEK

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