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National Search Engines and Directories


Here's our current list of winners and losers in the UK search engine market. Feel free to send us your comments or suggestions, and let us know if there's anything we missed.

   
Google UK The UK version of this leading search engine. Great results, shame the UK site doesn't default to UK searches.
MSN UK The leading search portal in the UK. Lots of traffic available from surfers who are in the mood to buy. Get in there and fill your boots.
Ask Jeeves With extensive television advertising, Ask Jeeves fast became one of Britiains top search engines. Simply type a question, click Ask and the results will come up in answer format. Excellent!
HotBot UK Powered by Inktomi, the UK branch of the famous international site. Remember to select the UK/Ireland Results only box before your search
AltaVista UK Bye Bye. Good luck with Overture. Not to be ruled out though...
LookSmart UK Looksmart have some of the messiest results I have ever seen. Prone to stick in PPC affiliate links. A site remarkably few people search on. I don't blame them. Useful to submit to for MSN traffic.
Mirago Useful little PPC engine (results on AJ) apart from that noone uses it. As the UKs only home grown spidering search engine we hope it makes the grade.
Overture UK A leading PPC provider in the UK.
Yahoo UK Serves up Google results at the moment, which is a real shame for people who are in their directory. Things are about to change, however.
Lycos UK Appalling results, they state the results are from UK & Ireland when in actual fact the results are from Timbuktoo and Outer Mongolia! They used to have a good directory, then they hid it to make sure you couldn't find anything useful.
About UK Although this is stated as the UK version of About.Com, the site still contains mainly US content, but design is excellent.
BBCi Search Google results with BBC additions.
250000 Very useful directory, with great deal of content. Navigation and design could definitely be improved to make the website more usable.
Espotting Leading European PPC engine.
Splut An A for effort, this little UK engine actually does drive some traffic, worth submitting to..
UK-250 £60 to get in, probably doesn't drive any traffic, but a nice layout..
Kingdom Search Lovely design, serves results very quickly, although said results are a load of rubbish.
WebSearch UK UK branch of a popular Australian site that just shows Australian sites. Highly relevant!
GB Pages A directory for everything British with a great design. Doers drive a little traffic.
SGTSearch A new directory which takes data from DMOZ but also allows entries into their own main database for a nominal charge of £5. A good effort, we look forward to developments.
SearchUK Is quite a widely used site, but tends to serve a lot of affiliate links.
British Information Very confusing website that contains a limited amount of information.
Killer Info Meta Search Engine that uses AbachoUK, MSN UK, Google UK, Mirago, Yahoo UK, Lycos UK, AltaVista UK, AOL UK, BBC. Also offers many other Countries and Specific Channel Searching.
Go4.it Feeds results from number of other search engines. Has speech enabled search.
active7.com
Hand built directory, with a simple and intuitive design.
Find UK
Meta search engine.
GoBango
Search engine that lists websites under relevant search terms. Fast, simple design and most importantly provides relevant results.
AllSearchEngines
UK-based metasearch engine
Searchy
UK-based metasearch engine
Quango
UK directory with great deal of content and an intuitive navigation.
Eibon
UK-based metasearch engine that feed information from Fast and Espotting.
info.co.uk UK-based metasearchengine that searches Google, Ask, Teoma, Fast, Thomson, Webfinder, OVerture, E-spotting, ODP, Mirago and Turbo 10.
UKSearchking UK Directory for Britain including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, offering free site submissions.
UKsearch.com Provides a deep index of the UK web with an index over 100 million UK webpages. Also includes regional searching, sector searching, and recognise natural language queries as well as boolean operators.
Just35.com
UK-based general directory.
1 truesearch
UK and Ireland Specific Search Engine and Tools
Search Engine Colossus Directory of Search Engines with a UK page
Green Phase UK Environmental Directory
Ithaki UK Meta search engine. Searches the top UK search engines at
once and ranks the results.
freesearch freesearch is a UK based search destination, offering the best of Web Search, Picture Search and an Online Dictionary.
   



 
  Use our constantly updated list of the most popular UK search engines and directories:
  1) Google UK
  2) Yahoo
  3) MSN
  4) AOL
  5) Ask Jeeves
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
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