International Search Engines: Great Britain, England, the United Kingdom, the U.K., whatever!
Every Saturday on AltSearchEngines we continue our trip around the world.
We’ve been to Iceland, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand, India, and Yemen, to name a few, and today we are skipping “across the pond” to visit our British brothers and sisters in the U.K.
Are you bilingual? Can you read Japanese, Polish, Swahili, or some other language? Enjoy searching for search engines? We need country specific volunteers to aid us on our journey. Just shoot me an email: Charles@ReadWriteWeb.com. Thanks!
These Top 10 UK Alternative Search Engines are derived from a much longer list graciously provided by Mojeek.co.uk, a “Top 100″ search engine. For better or worse, the final cut was my selection, not theirs.
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Mojeek is an independent crawler based search engine offering its own unique results, all of which have been gathered and indexed by crawling the web. One of the main aims at Mojeek is to implement and allow full customization on a personal, search-by-search basis. To do this, Mojeek’s ranking and weightings have been designed, and are fully configurable, at the time of each search.
2. 
mirago offers: Regional Search - Enables users to perform searches for pages within X miles of a location and sort their results by distance or relevance. Mobile Search - Search the web or compare prices via mobile devices. Trusted Feeds - Deep indexing of websites where conventional indexing is not possible.
3. 
WhooshUK. I searched for “Monty Python” and WhooshUK found:
4. 
info.co.uk is a search platform that pulls together results from the leading search engines and pay-per-click directories. Info.co.uk is also partnered with other search providers to include comparison shopping and product reviews.
5. 
knuru is a research engine. Using short descriptive sentences, you can find deeply relevant business information from top-tier academic and institutional sources that you might not otherwise have access to.
6. 
WebWobot lets you search the World Wide Web or just the UK. WebWobot also has some interesting discussions at their search engine-related forums.
7. 
Trexy is an add-on to your browser that lays digital breadcrumbs along your search path, allowing you to find the information again as well as blazing a trail for others to follow. Connected to over 4,000 general and vertical search engines, Trexy gives users three options: search their own trails, search others’ trails, or create a new trail.
8. 
Majestic-12 is working towards creation of a World Wide Web search engine based on concepts of distributing workload. Watch out Big G! 
9. 
JumpToJobs.co.uk is a job search site that lets you determine how much you spend in order to generate traffic to your website and jobs through pay-per-click.
10. 
everyclick is a search engine that lets you search the web and benefit the <U.K.> charity of your choice. So far, they have raised £277,210 for charities.
