The Internet is open for business 24 hours a day and a "teller" is always on call in the form of a fully automated system.
Unfortunately, certain clever criminals have made the very notion of online banking inherently risky.

While many of the major mainstream search engines have always had some form of filtering designed to make their searches more family friendly, not many family specific engines have been released to the Internet. So where's a parent to turn when it comes to safe, Internet surfing? InteliMark Enterprises is hoping you'll turn to their new Family Source search engine.

Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed.

Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

The Kids Directory is a listing of over 20,000 kid friendly websites that were hand picked by employees of Looksmart subsidiary Net Nanny and vetted for quality. Looksmart also offers a safe search of the entire web, using Net Nanny software to filter Wisenut search results, as well as a free toolbar that uses the same service.

Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996.

The web is a huge place where children can be easily misled and taken advantage of. I know you will agree when I say there is a great need for engines such as Dibdabdoo.com to keep our children safe online. More and More kids are using the net every day, so as parents its imperative we educate our kids about online dangers

Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.

Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.

All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.