Quintura is an interesting site that I learned about from the blog,
The Educational Technology Blog. This is a search engine that acts like tag cloud/mind map mixed together. For example, once you enter a search the results come up in a tag cloud, from there you can click on other terms to create a chain. After a search is complete a person can get the embed code to embed in their site/blog.
An example on the search of the term, animal...

Give Quintura a try by clicking
here.
Quintura is one of the few searche engines we allow our elementary students to use. I wish they had a broader selection of content though. Still, it's a nice starting point. Didn't know about embedding the cloud results... that could come in handy. Thanks!
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