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Searching this Archive of Kid-Tech News
We've been covering all aspects of children's use of the Internet and digital media since 1997, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act and the Internet industry starting holding summits on children's online safety.
So there's actually a lot of history here, from major milestones in Net safety, research, legislation, technology, and education to individual parents' and children's interests and concerns sent in via email. For example, you can find the names of blogging sites popular among teens, the latest research on risks to kids' online safety, information and resources on cyberbullying, and help with PC security.
There are a couple of ways to find what you're looking for: You can type a word or phrase into one of our site-search boxes or search our newsletter index page for the current calendar year (indexes for earlier years can all be clicked to from the top of that page).
The quickest: Search for a term in the box above, click to one of the results turned up, then search that page (Ctrl + "F" or Apple + "F") for your word/phrase - or, if in the current calendar year, just Ctrl + "F" on our index page.
Site Search
We have two site search engines on this site. Google's at the top of the main pages, as you see above, and FreeFind is on some other pages (click here to conduct a FreeFind search). The upside of Google, I've found, is that you'll get more relevant results. But FreeFind "crawls" our site more frequently, so you're more likely to get news from the past week or so (maybe more) in FreeFind.
Searching with Google
To search this site, be sure "www.netfamilynews.org" is clicked before clicking "Search" - otherwise you're searching the whole Web. On the results page, you'll get entries that look like the following. (To find the latest of these results on your topic, look at the URL in the last line; it shows the date of that particular issue - for example, 1/16/04.)
Typical Google search result:
Net Family Newsletter... Family Tech: A tech-literate dad on file-sharing; Web News Briefs: Teens' blog life;
Blogs help Iranian political prisoner; Net use in 14 countries; Canada's ...
www.netfamilynews.org/nl040116.html - Similar pagesWhen you click on "Net Family Newsletter" and go to that issue of the newsletter, just do a page search for your topic (e.g., "blogs"). [To conduct a page search, hold down the Ctrl or Apple key and hit "F" for "find."]
FreeFind and the Newsletter Index
The same instructions work for FreeFind, and your search results will look very much the same. FreeFind's a little more up-to-date on our site updates but, unless one needs last week's news (more easily found on the newsletter index page), it always seems to take just a little longer to find exactly what I'm looking for than with Google's. Could just be me.
For the very latest material we've uploaded to our server, go to the newsletter index page and just click on its date for the latest issue, then do a page search (that Ctrl + "F" trick). Or subscribe to our RSS feed with your news reader or just visit our blog each evening. Google owns Blogspot, so you can search our blog very effectively using Google's search box at the top of each of the blog's pages.
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