A variety of kid based search engines on one page. Go Network has well indexed pages and fairly reliable ranking. Lycos Lycos has an advanced search feature that allows you to look for just pictures, or just sounds, or to limit your search by other formats. MetaCrawler MetaCrawler searches several other search engines at once and reports all the results. Yahoo is the largest subject directory on the Internet.
Beginners can browse general categories, and proceed to more and more specific topics.