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Children's Search Engines from an Information Search Process Perspective.
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Broch, Elana – School Library Media Research, 2000
Describes cognitive and affective characteristics of children and teenagers that may affect their Web searching behavior. Reviews literature on children's searching in online public access catalogs (OPACs) and using digital libraries. Profiles two Web search engines. Discusses some of the difficulties children have searching the Web, in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Processes, Information Retrieval