Grade Keeper: 21st century search engines teachers must be aware of part 5

This is the fifth part in a series of posts covering the best search engines available online for educators and teachers . If you haven’t read the previous posts then here is a brief summary of them , click on the title of each post to refer you back to its body .

Part One

Part two

Part Three

Part Four

1- Specra

Specra is another interesting search engine that works on Google , Yahoo , MSN . Specra generates results from these three huge engines and puts them for you all in one single page .
Specra ranks its results using a sophisticated algorithm ; the end result is improved quality of results for the query .” you can also assign weights to search engines to vary the importance given to their results .”

2- Sperse

Sperse is like most of the other search engines we have seen till now . It offers a search based on

Images
Web
Video
News….etc

It also provides a preview icon for the search results so that you can literally see a “ snapshot” of the site before browsing to it .

3-Spezify

Spezify is another search engine that looks like Sperse with a slight difference in that it has a unique surface and a special touch . The search results spezify provides are a mixture of images/ multimedia/ text……….etc.

4- SpuTTik

SpuTTik is “ a free , web-based , collaborative Multilanguage operating system providing you all the best free online applications and websites. With online applications and services ( also known as web applications or web ware), you do not need to download or install anything . All the services will be directly available for you . These applications and services are cross- platform , running via your browser as a client irrespective of what operating system you are using .” definition taken from SpuTTik official website .