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New Search Tool Offers K-12 Students Safe, Relevant, Grade-Appropriate Resources for All of Their Educational Needs; New Virtual Backpacks Allow Parents and Students to Store and Share Their Favorite Videos and Content

AOL announced the launch of StudyBuddy.com (www.StudyBuddy.com), a free search engine built just for homework for grades K through 12 and available to all Internet users. Featuring advanced search tools and extensive content from trusted references and educator-screened Web sites, StudyBuddy.com delivers information customized to each student’s grade level and homework needs.

Unlike other free educational offerings on the market, the StudyBuddy.com search engine anticipates the information needs of students and breaks results down into grade-appropriate groups: kindergarten to second grade; third to fifth grade, sixth to eighth grade; and ninth to twelfth grade. While students can enter a word or two as regular search engines require, StudyBuddy.com also allows them to enter sentences to find the most relevant information for homework help. Powered by technology partner blinkx, StudyBuddy.com’s unique search functionality also organizes results by media type to best meet assignment source requirements.

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By: David A. Utter | Source: webpronews.com

A slate of updates to the Blogger platform run by Google provides some new features for bloggers and their readers.
The new Blogger beta brings privacy, labeling, and more templates to its users. Most importantly, it seems to promote a method of bringing non-Google Account holders into the Google fold.

As part of the Blogger beta’s privacy features, a blogger can limit readership of a blog to a select group of people. Those readers can be invited via their email address to be members:

For each address entered, the Google Account associated with that address will be given access to view your blog. If an address is not associated with an account, that person will be sent an invitation email. In this email will be a link which will let them do one of three things:

* Sign in to an existing account.
* Create a new account.
* View your blog as a guest (no account required).

nvitees can view the blog as a guest via the email link for two weeks before it expires. Ultimately the process leads to making those visitors new Google Account holders.

Other features include the addition of labeling to blog posts. For some reason Google insists on calling it ‘labeling’ when everyone else calls it ‘tagging.’ There doesn’t seem to be a cause for doing this other than a dislike of the term ‘tagging.’

At first, a few current Blogger accounts will be given the option to transition to the new system. Those who want to try out the new Blogger beta can do so by visiting the Blogger Beta page and signing in with a Google Account. Later, Google plans to allow users to merge existing and new Blogger accounts together to make the sign-in process easier.

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