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A great collection of UK Search Engine websites

SEARCH ENGINE Websites  www.searchenginewebsites.co.uk

Search Engine: n. A website that primarily provides a search engine for gathering and reporting information available on the Internet or a portion of the Internet.

• Allexperts.com 

  Pick a category, then choose a volunteer, then ask your question.

  http://www.allexperts.com

• Alta Vista 

  One of the oldest crawler-based search engines on the web. It also offers news search, shopping search and multimedia search.

  http://uk.altavista.com

• AOL Search 

  Allows its members to search across the web and AOL's own content from one place.

  http://www.aol.co.uk/

• Ask Jeeves 

  A human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question.

  http://www.ask.co.uk
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• CNET Download.com 

  Lists and reviews thousands of Windows, Macintosh, DOS, Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE, and BeOS software programs.

  http://download.cnet.com

• Copernic 

  Offers powerful options in an easy-to-use interface, plus has a great selection of specialty searches options, such as music, movies, jobs and sports. Available for Windows and the Mac.

  http://www.copernic.com
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• DailyStocks.com 

  Search engine that specialises in information regarding the stock market and financial investment.

  http://www.dailystocks.com
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• Excite 

  Offers a medium-sized crawler-based web page index, as well as access to human-powered directory results from LookSmart.

  http://my.excite.com
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• FAST Search 

  FAST Search consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. Also offers large multimedia and mobile/wireless web indexes, available from its site.

  http://www.alltheweb.com
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• Gamez.com 

  A directory of game sites.

  http://gamez.com

• Google 

  Considered by many to be the leading choice for web searchers. It offers the largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based search engine.

  http://www.google.co.uk
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• Hot Bot 

  A favourite among many researchers due to its many power searching features.

  http://www.hotbot.com
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• Inktomi 

  Inktomi delivers powerful search solutions scalable enough to meet the demanding needs of Global 2000 enterprises, leading Internet portals, and popular destination Web sites.

  http://www.inktomi.com

• Internet.com Downloads 

  Provides links to several major sites operated by Internet.com that offer software reviews and downloads.

  http://www.internet.com/sections/downloads.html
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• KidsClick! 

  Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
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• LookSmart 

  A human-compiled directory of web sites.

  http://www.looksmart.co.uk

• Lycos 

  It started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web.

  http://www.lycos.co.uk
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• Mamma 

  Sends search requests to major search services.

  http://www.mamma.com

• Medical World Search 

  Listings are created by spidering pages from a select group of medical sites, in order to keep results tightly focused.

  http://www.mwsearch.com

• MetaCrawler 

  One of the oldest meta search services, it began in July 1995 at the University of Washington, USA.

  http://www.metacrawler.com

• MSN Search 

  The service is a LookSmart-powered directory of web sites, with secondary results that come from Inktomi.

  http://search.msn.com
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• Netscape Search 

  Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database, which does an excellent job of listing "official" web sites. Secondary results come from Google.

  http://search.netscape.com
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• Open Directory 

  The Directory uses volunteer editors to catalogue the web.

  http://dmoz.org

• Overture 

  The oldest and most important paid placement search engine, because it distributes its listings to a wide-range of major search engines, including AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot and Netscape Search.

  http://www.overture.com
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• Search.com 

  A meta search engine operated by Cnet. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options.

  http://www.search.com

• SearchGov.com 

  Search engine that crawls US government and state government web sites.

  http://www.searchgov.com
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• UK Plus 

  A search engine/directory offering from Associated Newspapers, with all sites being edited by humans.

  http://www.ukplus.co.uk
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• Web Ferret 

  It lets you search across the web. The free version has banner ads, while the paid version does not.

  http://www.zdnet.com/ferret
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• Yahoo UK & Ireland 

  Considered to be the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily.

  http://uk.yahoo.com
 

• UK SearchEngine Directory

  Great links in a directory format

  http://www.uk-searchenginedirectory.co.uk

• UK Websites Directory

  A new directory site well worth a look! Tell all your friends.

  http://www.uk-websitesdirectory.co.uk