Thinga Launches A Search Engine For Kids

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Yahoo Kids died a quiet death two years ago. But to BJ Heiney, who worked on the product from 1996 to 2000, the shutdown was a "travesty," and he's aiming to fill that hole with a new search engine called Thinga.Heiney's been building Thinga for the past year under the umbrella of The Bear James Company, his startup for "child and family-oriented projects." It's not the first kid-focused search engine out there (others include GoGooligans and KidRex), but the idea is to create a fun site that appeals to contemporary kids.Heiney described Thinga as "a walled garden." Like any search engine, kids can type in the terms that they're interested in, but all the results come from Thinga's content library, either hand-selected by his team or pulled from whitelisted, kid-friendly sites.Or users can just browse the latest Thinga content without searching at all — the homepage offers selections divided into areas like ...