Full listing of irish , scottish search engines

[madmal]

Please could someone provide me with a list of irish and scottish search engines?

[Brett_Tabke]

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[jmccormac]

The Irish search engine scene is pretty dead at the moment. It has an 'after the gold rush' feeling to it. Apart from Google, only whoisireland.com is actively acquiring and spidering Irish websites on a regular basis (1). The other main search engine in Ireland is, naturally, Google. I think that another Irish search engine, http://www.indexireland.com is still running. At least three Irish search directories went offline in the last year. (searchengine.ie/iesearch.ie). Another two that I know of made it online but never got any further (searchirelandonly.ie and irelandsno1.com). Basically I think that they all failed to monetize the search results.

The main search sites in Ireland are really directories though I don't really know what kind of traffic they get. The ones below are the ones that seem to be the most recognised.

http://whoisireland.com (Automatic .ie/CNO inclusion/user sub)
http://www.indexireland.com (User submission)
http://www.irishsearch.net (ODP/User submission)
http://www.niceone.com (User submission)
http://www.browseireland.com (User submission)
http://www.kompass.ie (business)
http://www.doras.ie (User sub/paid inclusion)

There was an attempt at a Yahoo directory clone (http://www.doras.ie) by the main telco in Ireland but it stagnated after an attempt to introduce paid inclusion for some categories and a lack of investment. Most of the directories have been squashed by Google. Traffic now seems to be based on search engines rather than directories.

As for Scotland, I'm sure there is a good opportunity for a good search engine/directory but I don't know of any at the moment.

Regards...jmcc
(1) whoisireland.com is currently on the first March run spidering all the .ie websites). It has two search engines - the first indexes .ie websites only (daily/weekly) and the other indexes all Irish websites (.ie/com/net/org/info) in depth (monthly).

[1][[b]edited by[/b]: IanTurner at 4:25 pm (utc) on Mar. 11, 2003][/1]

[MHes]

Scottish search engine/directory...

www.scotsmart.com

[Bobby_Davro]

For Scotland:

http://www.scotland.com
http://www.scotfind.com
http://www.inglasgow.co.uk
http://www.inedinburgh.co.uk
http://www.webscot.co.uk
http://www.allofscotland.com
http://www.scotsearch.org
http://www.scotlands.com
http://www.scotsmart.com