I’ve just revised and updated The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners.

As always, feedback is welcome.

Oolone is a new search engine that shows you large images of search results instead of text. Those kinds of visual results have obvious advantages for English Language Learners.

There are other search engines the provide similar results, including Google if you hover on the text. Because of that, even though I’m adding Oolone to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners, who knows how long it will be able to survive?

2Lingual is a bilingual search engine. You type in your search term and then choose two languages. Search results will show-up side-by-side in both languages.

It could come in very handy for English Language Learners in content classes, as well as for their teachers who might be looking for materials in a second language that they could offer to their students for extra support. I was quite pleased with the searches I did, though I wish they had separate “tabs” for videos.

They provide bilingual searches for Google and for Bing, plus a voice search capability.

I’m adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners and to The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science.

Jawoco is a new search engine that could be useful for ELL’s. After you make a query, in addition to the text links, it automatically shows a thumbnail image next to each item. It’s easier for ELL’s to see than in Google, where you have to scroll over each result in order to see a visual preview. Google’s preview is bigger than a thumbnail, of course, but if you scroll over a result in Jawoco, you can also get a much bigger preview.

Of course, the bigger question is if this slight advantage is going to enable Jawoco to make it over the long-term….

As long as it’s around, I’m adding Jawoco to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners.

Askives is a new search engine that utilizes many of the question/answer sites that abound on the Web. Like another similar site, Kngine, though, it appears to be able to separate the good answers from the many useless and inaccurate ones that are out there.

I’m adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners.

I first read about Qwiki last week in Newsweek. Then, today, TechCrunch announced that they had a limited number of invites to check it out. The probably don’t have any left by now, but I’d strongly encourage you to go there and try, because Qwiki is definitely worth a visit.

Qwiki is described very accurately by TechCrunch:

Qwiki is somewhere in between a visual search engine and a highly interactive and entertaining Wikipedia. It assembles information on the fly for millions of topics, bringing together images and text in a truly magical way.

One thing that TechCrunch didn’t mention, and I learned when I snagged an invite, was that the text is not only very accessible, audio support for it is provided, too.

Even though it’s not open to the public yet, I’m adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners. Students are going to love it.

WAHchinga appears to be some kind of personalized web feed, but I can’t quite figure out how that part works. What I can figure out, though, is that it appears to be a pretty easy search engine for social media.

Because of that, I’m adding it to Not “The Best…,” But “A List” Of Search Engines For Social Media.
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Untabbed is a new search engine that lets you see a large screenshot of any search result.

It’s very similar, though, to the system that Google began unveiling last week (see Google Search Has Just Gotten Better For English Language Learners). Given that the only difference I can see is that it offers a larger size screenshot of the site — which is a nice feature — there doesn’t seem to be any difference between Untabbed and what Google is rolling-out. In fact, Untabbed even uses Google search results.

I’m still going to add it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners list. I just don’t know how long it’s going to be around.

Google has just unveiled a new feature in its search engine — the ability to see images of the site search results without having to go to the sites themselves.

It doesn’t seem to be available everywhere yet. For me, it just showed the images of the first few results. But they are rolling it out, and it will be a boon to English Language Learners. I have several other search engines who offer a similar feature on The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners list. It makes things a lot more accessible for ELL’s.

To try it out after you do a search, go to “More Search Tools” on the left of your screen. Click on it, and then go down to “Standard Results” and “page previews.”

Space Time 3D Search Engine is a visual search engine that lets you see results on a carousel.

I think it’s a little “clunky,” so I’m not going to add it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners, but it’s still worth a look.

BevyFind is a new search engine that lets you…well, it’s a little hard for me to explain exactly what it does. For English Language Learners, I like the fact that you can click on a text result and see the website without leaving the search page. I also like the fact that you can easily add multiple search results, including images, to automatically add to email that you can describe. That capability is good for higher-order thinking categorization skills.

It appears that it’s primary selling-point for most people, though, appears to be its ability to show lots of different search results on the same page. That’s a bad, and not accurate description, but, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to better explain it. Check it out yourself.

It’s an interesting search engine, but not exceptional enough to be added to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners.

Thanks to Angela Maiers for the tip.

I have to try it out some more to be sure, but Kngine looks like it might be a truly exceptional search engine for English Language Learners and other students.

It calls itself a “revolutionary Semantic Search Engine and Question Answer Engine designed to provide meaningful search results.” Users can write a question in — for example, “How many years do you have to go to college to be a teacher?” (I chose that because my students have been doing research on careers). I was really quite impressed with the results that come up in response.

My students had tried using questions like that at some of the “question/answer” sites like Wikianswers. They easily found answers, but they varied wildly in terms of quality. The answers from Kngine seemed to take the best answers from those kinds of sites and include additional resources, too.

Even though I need to experiment with it more before I’m sure, I feel good enough about it to add to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2009.

I’d be interested in hearing what your experience with it is, too.