3. What is iSEEk?
iSEEK™ Education is a targeted search engine that compiles hundreds
ofthousands of authoritative resources from university, government,
andestablished 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.
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4. Why do I choose it?
1- 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™ K–12 Internet users are receiving only age-appropriate
search results.
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5. Why do I choose it?
2- Authoritative Resources
Gathered from thousands of trusted educational sources, iSEEK™
Education resources are selected for quality and are 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 per week, creating a dynamic search experience as
up-to-date as the Web itself.
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6. Why do I choose it?
3- 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.
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7. Why do I choose it?
4- iViews™ Make Sense
The first "i" in iView™ 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. The iViews™ will 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
grade.
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8. Why do I choose it?
5- Web-based Bookmarks Go Everywhere
iSEEK™ lets you bookmark anything you can find on the Web—Web sites,
blogs, videos, PDFs, worksheets created in Microsoft® 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?
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9. Why do I choose it?
6- 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!
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10. iSEEK™ Quick Reference
If you are new to iSEEK™ and would like a brief overview of the features
that allow you to get more from your searches, please download and
read the quick reference guide.
iSEEK™ Education Quick Reference Guide (324 kB)
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11. iSEEK Quality Criteria
iSEEK™ has gathered its authoritative resources from thousands of
trusted educational sources, and all of 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.
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12. Browser Search
iSEEK™ Browser Search keeps targeted discovery at your fingertips,
without taking up extra screen space and without requiring you to
navigate to a new page first. Simply type your query or question into the
search box in the upper-left-hand corner of your browser screen, and
iSEEK™ will do the rest.
iSEEK™ Browser Search is supported by the following Web browsers, and
their later versions:
•Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7
•Mozilla Firefox 2.0
•Google Chrome
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13. Add iSEEK™ to your Website
You can allow users to perform versatile targeted searches on iSEEK™
Education - or any of the available iSEEK™ SearchBlades - by adding
iSEEK™ to your website.
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