Great post! I agree with your assessment of the difficulty of getting teachers – and kids – to search effectively. One thing we have underway at Boolify are two ancillary tools that will hopefully be additionally helpful.

The first, code-named All.sides, pulls apart the various sides of topics, e.g., the “positive” and “negative” of “owning a dog”, or the “positive” or “negative” to the expansion of the US. This will hopefully help as a research tool…

The second is a more friendly whois tool, which combines as much information about the ownership of a site as possible, so that it’s easier to learn about who owns and operates any particular site. Very useful, we hope, for digging a bit deeper about information on the web.

Of course, I’d love to know if there’s anything else we could offer as part of the Boolify toolset — anything missing, with those two tools added, that would be of help to your teachers and students?

Thanks & cheers!
–Dave