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The Internet has many sites with information and help for homework assignments. But how do you know if the information a site contains is reliable? The Students' Guide to Web Search helps you learn how to tell a good site from a garbage site, and shows you how to start searching smart.

Search engine for royalty free images.

Resources that parents and teachers can use to equip children with the skills needed to search wisely, recognize unreliable material and stay safe while surfing the Web.

Search engine for creative commons images

Has gazillions of articles from journals and other places in the form of downloadable pdfs. Very useful site for historical research and of course looks perfectly legal...

search engine for creative commons images

Oops! this is just the logo for behold... just ignore.

This article provides a case study of  how the CRCD framework shaped the  development of the "Day in the Life of  a Teenage Hobo Project," a multi-day  investigation into the social history of  teenage homelessness during the Great  Depression. Using the framework, Tom  Daccord, a former U.S. history teacher  and current academic technology specialist in Massachusetts, designed a  project that used multiple technologies- search engines, blogs, and podcasting  tools-to help students investigate the  political, economic, and social history  of the Great Depression. 

'Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and combining King's College London's Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities with The National Archives and Canterbury Christ Church University, The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a unique and pioneering enterprise which democratises the rolls by making them freely available in English translation with a sophisticated electronic search engine, the first medieval source to be treated in this way.'

A brilliant search engine for historical images; it searches over 300000 images from a wide variety of sites.

A search engine for free ebooks. Usually these are out-of-print, older texts which can be useful for historical research.

Browse the Europeana collections through time periods

I'm not sure if this site has digitised medieval manuscripts there or if it functions as a search engine for the rest of the web, but either way it's a good place to find medieval primary sources.

This is a search engine which scans a collection of primary source websites for open access sources. They purport to focus on American and British literature.