Dear all
Apologies for the delay in summarising the response for my request, I
thought I would wait a bit until I heard anything else.
There does not appear to be any UK meta search engines, a couple of people
did give me names of their favourite meta search engines which cover the
internet globally:
http://www.metaeureka.com/help.html
http://www.mamma.com
A couple of my favourites at the moment are
http://www.ixquick.com : (opens up web pages highlighted in the results in a
separate window.)
and http://www.infind.com (categorises results according to type of source
e.g. commercial, academic, government etc)
Dale from London mentioned a product which looks worthy of
investigation:Copernic 2000 which is downloaded onto your local drive and
then is used to search the web, Copernic can search across a number of
search engines, and can also restrict searches to UK only. The software can
be downloaded from http://www.copernic.com . I am sorry if I appear to be a
bit vague on the efficacy of this one, it's because our company does not
like the use of locally held software and I cannot trial it at home because
my P.C. has packed up.
Hope you all find some use for this,
Have a lovely weekend
Gill
Gill Wareing
Information Officer
SHS International Ltd
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Liverpool
L7 9PT
United Kingdom
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