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Search engines and directories
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About search engines and internet directories
Note that directories can offer search facilities, but that doesn't make them search engines. Search engines collect information from all over the net, and point you to information from all over the net in response to your search. They may also be unmoderated (and uncensored). Directories contain classified information, often submitted by site owners, and search their own classifications in response to your search.
Search engines and web directories -- UK
- About.com -- UK version of the US company's searchable directory of information and resources
- ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway -- a searchable catalogue of more than 2546 online resources
- Afind -- UK-based multi-search page
- AskAlix -- quick and easy, searchable directory of business addresses and numbers
- Atlantica -- infuriatingly fussy and slow-loading portal that includes a subject index (and an overwhelming emphasis on small business sites -- July 2001)
- britishinformation -- a UK-specific directory
- The Engine Rooms -- access to search engine and subject directory listings (and more) for the UK
- Excite UK
- Fat Birder's collection of UK ornithology sites, maps, recommended
books and travel guides, and relevant links
- History: American and British -- a directory of resources maintained by Tom Glynn at Rutgers University
- iFind -- "one of the most powerful... search engines in Europe", with a search assistant to help refine searches
- Londinium -- searchable directory focused on the capital, with front page news headlines
- LookHere -- A-Z commercial directory
- Lycos UK
- Mirago -- "aimed specifically at UK businesses and families", and supports both advanced search options and natural language queries
- The National Gallery full collection index
- Search Engine Colossus -- alphabetical list of links to UK (and world) search engines and directories
- Search the UK Parliament pages
- SearchInWales.com -- search for sites in or about North, South, West, East or Mid-Wales
- UK Index
- UK Plus! -- incorporates
- ukselfhelp.info -- links to and contact details of 780 UK self-help groups (June 2002)
- wHYwAITwEEKS -- UK-based web directory
- Yahoo! UK
Search engines -- international
Web directories -- international
- AstronomyLinks.com -- a searchable subject index of almost 900 links related to astronomy
- The Earthquake Index -- a searchable subject index of information related to earthquakes
- FireHouse.com's directory of links to international fire services and related sites, including lists of UK and English links
- Forestry Index -- a searchable subject index of resources related to forestry, with headings including conservation education, tree identification, and urban forestry
- Megalithia -- searchable directory of stone circles and other ancient monuments
- Searchspot.com -- a directory of directories "to make web searching easier for everyone on the Internet"
- WebCrawler -- a directory associated with Excite with a friendly but underpowered search engine
- WoodCenter -- a searchable subject index of reference material about wood and timber, sawmills, pulp and more
- Yahoo!
- ZooWeb's directory of links to 225 zoos and 30 aquaria on the Web
Specialised directories
People finders
- 192.com -- huge online directory based on the UK electoral roll, with limited searches free of charge
- Address Directory - Politicians Of The World -- Donald Vermithrax's list of phone, fax, e-mail and website addresses
- Celebrities Worldwide -- subscription-only access to database of contact details for celebrities
- People finding UK -- premium service (£45-plus in June 2002) to help find family and friends
- PeopleSearch -- metasearch for people
- PeopleTrace.com -- UK-based assistance in tracing friends and relatives, at a price (£12.50-plus in June 2002)
- InfoSpace UK -- postal addresses, and in many cases telephone numbers, for "more than 42 million residents in the United Kingdom", by means of search requests specifying at least a surname and a first initial.
- Missing You -- not strictly a directory, but a searchable bulletin board with more than 12,000 messages about UK missing persons and long-lost friends and colleagues; message posting is free, and the site offers UK electoral roll searches for £20 (July 2000)
- OldOppos -- search for Royal Navy ship's crews and unit personnel, plus details of reunions and associations, after free registration (membership, with extra facilities, cost £5 in June 2002)
- Scientific Search Engines -- a directory based on themes (humanities, languages, natural sciences, social sciences, and computers) and more
- UK Elected Representatives and Political Parties on the Web
- Worldwide Directory of Government Contacts: Central Government -- excludes UK & USA
- The Yahoo! People Search -- looks for international e-mail addresses and US phone numbers
Phone number finders
E-mail address directories
Media directories
Miscellaneous directories
- AccordionLinks -- Jeroen Nijhof's searchable directory of categorised links about the reedy chest expander (next it will be banjos, mark my words)
- Artcyclopedia -- a guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet, featuring 24,000 links to 80,000 works by 7,000 artists (June 2000)
- Aviation's Directory -- tens of thousands of links to aviation news, information and opinion
- Bowling Zone -- a searchable 10-pin bowling site directory
- Charity Choice -- searchable directory of UK charities
- Commonwealth Knowledge Network -- links researchers in Commonwealth countries with one another, as well as with the global research community, "to create an online community of vast research expertise and knowledge"
- Directory of British Self Help Groups and Support Organisations -- over 820 British national self-help and support organisations covering more than 750 conditions and needs
- DisneySeek -- searchable directory of information and resources aimed at those devoted to Walt's world
- efashion -- the home page features a search facility for fashion information, covering more than a million sites (July 2001)
- ElvisFind -- a searchable subject index for all things Elvis
- The Embassy Page -- 50,000 addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of diplomatic posts worldwide
- EpistemeLinks -- a database of links to philosophy, philosophers and philosophical matters, divided into categories including topics, papers, and images
- Fencing.Net -- searchable directory of fencing sites
- FlashSearch Search Engine Directory
- Food Navigator -- a searchable subject directory of news and analysis on food ingredients
- Harmonica Links -- a searchable subject directory celebrating everything to do with the harmonica
- Inomics EconSearch -- search engine for economics information
- Internet Guide to Engineering with a link to other Engineering Guides and Search Engines compiled by the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
- Lexicool -- a searchable directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- Medisearch -- UK medical search engine, sister to Mirago, and "a 'true' search engine rather than a directory"
- Nanospot -- a targeted search tool devoted to nanotechnology, tiny machinery built on a molecular scale
- Report Gallery -- searchable and browsable directory of 2,200+ annual reports from "most" Fortune 500 companies (includes an International Gallery)
- Road Haulage -- a directory of UK transport companies offering services in the UK and Europe
- Scientific Search Engines -- a directory based on themes (humanities, languages, natural sciences, social sciences, and computers) and more
- StampSites.com -- search tool for stamp collectors, covering 19,380 stamp-related web pages from all around the world (June 2002)
- Strategic Intelligence -- links to the world's intelligence community (the GCHQ home page, for instance)
- Tennis Org UK -- searches for tennis sites
- UK Elected Representatives and Political Parties on the Web
- Vintage Jazz Bands on the Internet
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