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.

The Mugurdy Search Engine is a simple visual search engine that is very accessible to English Language Learners.

Once you type in a query, search results are show with good size images of the actual websites. It reminds me of the old Page Bull visual search engine, which I rated highly two years ago but then went out of business.

It doesn’t have any of the “bells and whistles” of my other highly-rated search engines, but I’m still adding it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2009.

Stinky Teddy is the newest addition to Not “The Best…,” But “A List” Of Search Engines For Social Media.

It certainly has the strangest name of the applications on that list.

You can read more about it at Read Write Web.

Twurdy is a new search engine that returns results using a color-coded system that rates each result on how easy the text is to read.

I’ve shared my concerns about leveling books, but I tend to think that this kind of system might be useful to English Language Learners who are trying to find information quickly. It could save a lot of time and frustration.

I’m adding it to my website under Search Engines. I’m not quite convinced, though, that it will deserve a spot on my next “The Best” list on search engines.

Oamos is sure one wild search engine! You can use it to create a multimedia show, and then embed it.

I learned about it from Jen Farr, and she has an excellent post describing Oamos and how she’d use in class. Check it out.

KarToo has a fairly well-known visual search engine that is interesting, but I’ve always found it confusing for me, much less for English Language Learners. However, a couple of years ago they unveiled a new one that was I liked it a lot, and even originally placed it on one of my “The Best…” lists (you might want to check out The Best search engines for ESL/EFL Learners 2007 and The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008.  However, for some reason they took that one off-line.

I just learned from Alt Search Engines that they put it back online again — or at least, a limited version of it. It’s called KarTOO Cartographies.

When you submit a query, you get text results back, but also a neat-looking visual map of search categories.

WebKruz Search Engine is a pretty nifty new search engine. After submitting your query, it shows large images of each webpage that comes-up in the results, and will automatically scroll through them in a speed you choose.

In addition — and this is a feature I really like — it will show you results in related categories at the same time.

Both of these elements make it very useful to English Language Learners.

The only negative is that they also have an obnoxiously large advertisement on their main page.

I’m adding it to Search Engines on my website.

Thanks to Alt Search Engines for the tip.

The Lavva Search Engine will show thumbnail images next to each text description in your search results. You can then enlarge the image without leaving the search page.

That kind of visual support can be helpful to English Language Learners, and I’m adding it to my website under the Search Engines section.

It can apparently do a bunch of other stuff that I can’t quite figure out. And it does describe itself in a pretty weird way:

“Just as the flow of volcanic lava cannot be controlled or stopped, Lavva is not owned or controlled by anyone.”

But it is worth a look.

You might also want to check-out The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008.

Study Search is an Australian search engine specifically designed for students.

Here’s how it describes itself:

“studysearch.com.au is a customised Google search engine developed for Australian Primary and Secondary school students.

studysearch.com.au uses the power of Google’s search engine combined with a growing database of educational websites. When a search is done Google checks our database and gives those sites priority in the search results. The student is still doing a full Google search but the results are tuned to display sites that are more relevant.”

It has sections for both primary and secondary school students.  It doesn’t have visual screenshots, but I have to say I was impressed with the accessibility of the sites that came up in my searches.

I’m adding it to my website under Search Engines.

Searchme, the number one ranked search engine in The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008, has gone off-line.

You can read more about its problems at this TechCrunch post.

The site now redirects to Google.

Fortunately, there are a lot of other good options out there for English Language Learners that you can find on that list.

I sure pick ‘em. In addition to the number one site on that list going under, the number one tool on The Best search engines for ESL/EFL Learners 2007 went out of business, too. The same thing happened to the number one app on The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2008.

Perhaps being named number one on a “The Best…” list is a kiss of death…

If I ever wanted to generate some income,  maybe I could  have companies pay me not to name them number one

Google Squared is the newest search feature offered by Google.  It “opened for business” today.  It returns results in an interesting grid pattern.  I had thought it might have some potential as a useful tool for English Language Learners but, at least in its present form, I was less than impressed.

Check out The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008 for search engines that I like better.

You can read more about Google Squared at TechCrunch.

I was preoccupied with some other things earlier this week when Google announced new options for their search engine. Even from what I briefly read about it, my sense was that another option they were going to unveil later this month — called Google Squared — was going to be their search innovation that had the most potential for English Language Learners.

However, after reading more about their new Wonder Wheel (after you type in a query on the main Google page, you clip on “option” on the upper left) by Joyce Valenzuela and Richard Byrne, I decided to give it a second look.

For those that haven’t tried it yet, it presents search results in a “wheel” diagram with the spokes leading to various subcategories of your query. After you click on a subcategory, you’re then shown other subcategories in a new wheel — sort of like a typical “mind-web” graphic organizer. Every time you click on a category, the search results for that category are listed in text on the right side.

I still don’t think I’ll add it to The Best Search Engines For ESL/EFL Learners — 2008 because it only shows text results and not visual images of the sites that come up in the results, but, nevertheless, it does have some potential for ELL’s.

Search Motive is the newest addition to Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Search Engines For Social Media.

Like the other tools on that list, Search Motive focuses on letting you search sites like Twitter, Delicious, Friendfeed, etc.