Online Marketing research:Search tools and portals:UK based directories

1	Moreover	www.moreover.com
Excellent compilation of up-to-minute news
2	Ask Jeeves	www.ask.co.uk
UK version uses 2 UK specific SEs
3	Yahoo! UK & Ireland	www.yahoo.co.uk
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4	Yahoo	www.yahoo.co.uk
UK version
5	Altavista UK	www.altavista.co.uk	-
Includes UK only document option
6	Scoot (Freepages business addresses	www.scoot.co.uk
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7	UK Max	www.ukmax.com	-
Inktomi based SE and directory listing
8	Shopsmart	www.shopsmart.com	-
UK comparison engine
9	Search UK	www.searchuk.com	-
automatically crawls UK related domains
10	Lycos	www.lycos.co.uk	-
UKUK version
11	Reuters	www.reuters.com	-
financial and company news and business information
12	Reuters Factiva	www.factiva.com	-
financial and company news and business information
13	Excite UK	www.excite.co.uk	-
UK directory-based portal with good personalisation options
14	Shopgenie	www.shopgenie.com	-
UK comparison engine
15	County web	www.countyweb.co.uk
Directory of businesses around the UK arranged by counties
16	UK Plus	www.ukplus.co.uk	-
directory produced by journalists
17	Yellow Web directory	www.yell.co.uk
Online version of Yellow Pages.
18	UKdirectory	www.ukdirectory.co.uk
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19	Infoseek UK	www.infoseek.com	-
Searches .uk domains
20	Thomson Local directory	www.thomson-directories.co.uk
Online version of print media version, but with national coverage.
21	NewsNow	www.newsnow.co.uk	-
Good compilation of up-to-minute news (30 days)
22	The Biz	www.thebiz.co.uk
Yahoo style directory
23	UK Business Park	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk
Includes business news by sector
24	UK Index	www.ukindex.co.uk	-
Directory
25	Info4localgov	www.info4local.gov.uk
For those involved in marketing to public sector bodies - Information about local government regions collated by central government
26	UK Pages	www.ukpages.co.uk
Relatively small number of listings compared with others.

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indicates a site of relevance to UK-based Internet marketers.