The world of the Internet is complex, which is why children need to learn how to find their way around it.
Primary school children should therefore not yet search in the normal search engines for adults when they are on the Internet alone. Replace the search engine with a special child search engine. We introduce you three suitable search engines for children and compare them: www.fragFinn.de, www.helles-koepfchen.de and www.blinde-kuh.de.
Take a look at the different search engines together with your child. Which search engines does your child address? Talk about it and choose or try another search engine after some time.
This search engine is suitable for children from 6 to 12 years of age. All pages proposed by the search engine are neither creepy nor brutal. The site also includes games, pictures and videos. In addition, there are various topics such as the topic school. A special feature of this search engine is that children can write their questions directly to FINN. They receive the answers personally.
Children can learn how to search in a search engine, what terms they enter and what the difference between text and image search is. They learn how to recognize a good website and get lots of interesting information about topics of their age group. Overall, the content is very clearly displayed and the search engine always searches for children-specific websites first.
Big plus: There is no advertising.
This search engine is also available as an app for smartphones and tablets with an additional feature: You can lock other apps on your smartphone and make sure that the children only have access to suitable content.
The search looks like this:
Here you can choose between web page and images.
The website display:
The picture display:
Super clear search engine, which is clearly structured and also provides suggestions for jobs.
The homepage is much more complex than at fragFinn.de. It is suitable for children from 8 to 16 years of age. It is divided into the following categories: home page, knowledge, reportage as well as games and fun. Here there are already many offers, so that the search is almost in the background.
For example, you will find these topics in the section: Home
For example, you will find these topics in the section: Knowledge
For example, you will find these topics in the section: Reportage
For example, you will find these topics in the section: Games
This search engine has an advertising banner that runs sideways. In addition, there is always advertising in between. The advertising is clearly visible as an advertising and can also be turned off. In the left sidebar the button "advertising off" is displayed - no matter which side you are on. If you press it, the advertising is turned off.
The search queries appear here as follows:
This page provides a lot of knowledge and is certainly an overload for children who are just learning to read. Older children can probably get along well here. The focus on older children is also reflected in the topics. For example on puberty, on the topic of eating disorders or political special topics such as information on RAF.
This search engine is rather a web portal for children and adolescents from the age of 8 at the earliest.
This search engine is aimed at children aged 6 to 14 years.
The home page is complex and has little clarity.
Each search result includes an age indication as well as an image and a short text. This makes it easy to see whether the content is linguistically and by the degree of complexity suitable for one's own age. This is an absolute plus.
The results are also clearly presented.
In addition to the search field, there are also various categories: current, videos, random machine, games, play with, safety and Corona special.
Each of these pages is once again divided into different categories.
For example in the current section (see photo):
There is a game database in the games section. You can choose between different languages. The games are all free of charge and with age. Attention: The games work with an outdated Flash player and can therefore not be displayed on all devices.
Overall, this search engine is certainly harder for beginners to capture and therefore more suitable for children who can read better.
Despite all caution and prudence, even child search engines do not offer complete protection. Since the content on the Internet changes every day, it can happen despite all care that unsuitable content also lands here.