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Google - Google UK - Google Image Search
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Users across the web have in essence voted for good sites by linking to them.
Ask Jeeves - Jeeves For Kids - Ask Jeeves UK
Innovative online search service that processes plain-language queries with surprising accuracy.
Lycos - Lycos UK
Lycos has been around since the early days of the net and is still one of the most popular search engines. The service employs human editors for some of its listings, complemented by crawler-based results. The name Lycos comes from the Latin for "wolf spider."
Alta Vista - Alta Vista UK -
An awesome site from Digital, it maintains a HUGE index with powerful and FAST search functions. Coverage is excellent so it is good for broad searching and for offbeat subjects but you can be overwhelmed by too many hits. The Advanced Search is useful for finding images, MP3/audio and video files, and there's the useful Babelfish Translator .
LookSmart - Looksmart UK
LookSmart is the closest rival Yahoo has, in terms of being a human-compiled directory of the web. The high quality of the directory is thanks to a team of nearly 200 full-time professional editors.
Yahoo! - Yahoo UK
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is human beings. It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web, employing 80 or more editors in an effort to categorize the web. Yahoo has at least 1 million sites listed.
MSN (Microsoft)
Microsoft's MSN service features both directory listings and search engine results. Powered by Inktomi, this is now one of the most powerful search engines.
BBC - Search The Web
The BBC's "family friendly" search engine, based on Google search technology. Results are clear, uncluttered, relevant, and commercial free. "Our results are the ones that best match your search words - not the ones advertisers want you to see." Excellent!
GigaBlast
Gigablast is a new search-engine that looks set to challenge Google. It's been set up by a New Mexican Software Engineer, and already producing great search results.
GO Network
Go is the reincarnation of Infoseek, a newly designed site claiming to have enhanced capabilities, with a 50% larger search index and search results pages that are 30% faster. It offers portal features such as personalization and free e-mail.
HotBot
This search engine has a great many loyal fans. It very often comes up with the goods where other engines fail.
Open Directory
NetScape's Open Directory Project aims to build the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
Teoma Search
Teoma, which means "expert" in Gaelic, determines the authority or quality of a site's content, by using Subject-Specific Popularity. Subject-Specific Popularity ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity.
FAST Search
One of the new generation of search services, armed with next-generation technology. FAST aims to be bigger, speedier and more accurate than the existing major search engines.
Multi Search
Multi Search is a powerful tool which will search all the top search engines with one click.
Webcrawler
One of the first and biggest search engines, and it still produces highly relevant results.
REX
This is a VERY nice site - a little sense of humour, very professionally done.
HandiLinks
This is a great directory. HandiLinks listings are all organized into a hierarchical index and it's fast and easy-to-use. It has extensive categorization, and uses a frame design that aids rather than getting in the way of searches.
Snap.com
Snap.com is a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results. It aims to challenge Yahoo as the champion of categorizing the web.
Scour.Net
A useful multimedia search engine. Use it to find audio, video, images and animation Scour.Net takes you directly to the multimedia you are searching for, quickly and easily.
AAA Matilda
The most popular search engine outside of North America. Matilda is a very individual search engine from Australia, and growing rapidly in popularity.
UK Plus
UK Plus features reviews of UK-relevant sites, prepared by a team of journalists. Reviews are grouped into various channels, covering everything from Arts and Business to Travel and Work. They are also searchable.
Direct Hit
This Popularity Engine tracks the sites that people actually select from the search results list. By analyzing the activity of millions of previous Internet searchers, Direct Hit determines the most popular and relevant sites for your search request.
Dogpile
Sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites.
Britannica Internet Guide
This site strives to list only the highest quality sites on the Net. It's now integrated into the Britannicca.com website, so you get a high-quality search engine and encyclopaedia at the same time.
Go2Net
This is a metacrawler, in other words it searches several other search engines in order to obtain its results. Rapidly gaining in popularity as a web portal.
Alba36.com
A human reviewed searchable directory to over 2700 specialty and regional search engines, vortals, portals, topical guides, specialized directories and the best web sites.
WhosBest.com
A search engine that gives ratings for each site.
ANZWERS
ANZWERS (Australian and New Zealand Web Enquiry and Research System) offers visitors the ability to quickly conduct region and domain specific searches.
Mamma
Sends search requests to seven major search engines.
NewsTrawler
Allows you to send a query to one or more news sites from one location. Hundreds of sites are listed, by country and by category.
EuroSeek
EuroSeek is distinguished from other such engines by a multi-lingual interface.
Your WebScout
A popular index of the Net's best Web sites, discussion groups and archives.
Northern Light
A professional researchers' favourite, because it organises material so well by topic. Based in Canada.
SelectSurf
An excellent website directory, that doesn't overwhelm with too many sites.
BrightGate MetaSearch
Searches over 20 search engines using a parallel metasearch.
NewsBot
HotBot's news-only search service.
UKMax
UKMax allows users to search only pages within the .uk domain or perform a worldwide search. It also offers some directory listings, regional news content, weather reports, and portal features such as portfolio tracking.
SearchUK
Lists UK-related domains.
Global Online Directory (GOD)
UK based search engine.
GoTo
GoTo is the only major search engine which sells listings. Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search results, which GoTo feels improves relevancy.
Internet Sleuth
Allows you to search the standard search engine choices or a huge number of specialty sites, all from the same place.
Search Spaniel
This dog sniffs out several of major search engines at the same time, or you can choose to do the same with an extensive list of specialty search services, such as for entertainment or employment information.
SavvySearch
Metacrawler type engine.
BOTBOT.com
BOTBOT parallel search engine and Web Directory - Get multiple results using advanced parallel search technology. Search the Web, News, MP3, Images, Audio, Video and more. Comes up with some good results.
UK Index
Lists sites based in the UK or that are UK-relevant.
Metafind
Similar to Dogpile, except that searches only go to search engines.
HuskySearch
The author of MetaCrawler continues research into information retrieval with this University of Washington-based metacrawler.
Mirago
UK directory and search engine.
HealthLinks
Massive directory listing over 4,600 health related websites in 150 categories.
Safari
Safari is the default browser on Mac OS X. A while ago it was also ported to Windows. I must say it’s one of the finest browsers around, but sadly underused. If you belong to the Safari-minority, this section is for you.
- If you’ve got a Mac, open the Safari dropdown menu and select Preferences… at the top-left of the browser.
- If you’ve got Windows, open the Edit dropdown menu and select Preferences… at the top-left of the browser.
While you’re at it, you can also tell Safari what to do upon opening new tabs. Top Sites, one of the best features in Safari, is default, but perhaps you still prefer to use your homepage.
Opera
Opera is – sadly – one of the lesser used browsers, even though it’s got remarkable charms and has introduced numerous innovations in the browser market. If you’re amongst the fine men and women using this slick competitor, this section is for you.
- At the top of the browser, open the Tools dropdown menu and select Preferences.
- In the General tab, you can configure your homepage. Either type in the address you want to use, or choose to use the currently active page as homepage.
Firefox and Firefox-based Browsers
Firefox is not just the acclaimed geek-browser anymore. These days, it’s the most used browser in the internet market. As such, that is where we’ll start. Note that any menu-names might have to be translated to your own language, but any changes should be obvious.
How to Set Browser Home Page ?
- In the top left of your browser, open the Edit menu and select Preferences.
- In the Main tab, you can change your default homepage.
When you start typing in the text-field, Firefox will make suggestions based on your history. Alternatively, you can also use the address of the webpage currently active in your browser, one of your bookmarks, or restore the default Firefox Start page.
You can add multiple home pages — which will launch in tabs upon opening firefox — by putting vertical slashes between the links. (e.g. “http://mac--desk.blogspot.com | http://www.google.com”)
This will work with Firefox, but also with Firefox-based browsers, like Flock, Wyzo, and many others.
Internet Explorer (IE7 and IE8)
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer might be loathed by many, but one can’t ignore the fact that it takes a worthy second as most used browser. And thus we go on. The differences between Internet Explorer 7 and 8 are superfluous for this tutorial.
Option 1
In the top right of your screen, open the Tools dropdown menu and select Internet Options.
In the General tab, you’ll be able to set the browser home page to one of your liking. Similar to Firefox, you can use the address of the currently active page, the default start page, or a blank page.
If you want Internet Explorer to open multiple pages upon launch, you need to type the different addresses in the text-box, below each other.
Option 2
There’s a second way to configure your home page. First, surf to the webpage you want to use.
Next, open the dropdown menu next to the Home button, and select Add or Change Home Page…
A new window will pop up. You can choose to replace your current home page by the current address, or to add the webpage to your current bookmarks.
In Internet Explorer 8, you can also use the current tab set (all your open pages) as homepages.
Google Chrome
Chrome‘s one of the new guys on the block, but a relatively popular browser, taking in account its short time with us. If you like Google’s browser of simplicity, this part is for you.
- In the top-right corner of the browser, open the wrench dropdown menu and select Options. Go to the Basics tab, here you can configure your homepage.
Make sure that ‘Open the following pages’ is selected in the startup section near the top of the page.
In the box below, you can add multiple web addresses to be opened upon browser launch. If you want to open a blank page, you’ll have to enter ‘about:blank’, manually.
Option 2
Make sure that the ‘Open the home page’ is selected in the startup section near the top of the page.
In the Home Page section, you’ve got two options. Either use the New Tab Page — which is selected by default — or enter a custom address in the text-field.
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