All Around Useful Search Engines
We have found these search engines to be the best places to start looking for your information.
· Most pages indexed
· Use “Exact” for great results if you know what you’re looking for
Good for Boolean searching
· Advanced search can limit dates.
· Our favorite search engine
· Saves a copy of the page that you can view if the original is not available
· Has the ability to find similar pages
· Searches 10 to 14 other search engines
· No collation
· Good starting point for determining word choices
· Remarkably effective at finding expert sites, clearinghouses of information on a subject that can give you lists of links to use in research.
· Trying to outpace Google in the sheer number of Web pages that it has checked.
· It is a meta search engine, which means it takes a question and puts it to a series of other search engines.
· Clusty organizes the results into a usable list with subject categories.
· Saves queries for future use.
· Opens a window for each search engine
· Searches Web, News, Discussion Groups, Multimedia, Companies & Organizations and Careers. Or choose just a few!
Directory-Type Sites
This site lists over 1,200 search engines, directories and indices. It conveniently has links to major company web sites.
Industry Specific
Advertising & Media
We subscribe to hundreds of industry specific newsletters. In advertising and media, these are among our favorites:
Moreover Marketing News, send a blank e-mail
Moreover Cyberculture News, send a blank e-mail
Stuart Elliott (NY Times)
Directories
PR Outlet/Journalist directory
Larry Chase’s Search Engine for Marketers
World Advertising Resource Center
Know This GREAT directory of advertising and marketing information
Branding & Strategy
Slogan Analysis & Brainstorming
Company / Industry
· Company profiles, stock information, etc.
· Subscribers get more detail – officers, etc.
This easy to use site brings you not only annual reports from global companies for free, but also broker research reports from over 200
Competitive Intelligence Resource Index
This site offers a variety of resources for the business intelligence professional. It contains links grouped by the kind of information they provide (statistics, news, company information, etc), as well as information on publications and professional associations.
Check here for international companies not covered in
Statistical Abstract of the United States
EXISTING REPORTS
ABI (tech)
News Specific
· Choose news search
· Set up preferences – it provides top headlines from selected publications
· Great local sources
· Indexes for 5 days – VERY current events
- Search general publications, business publications and general news categories
- Now with archive search
WebLogs (Blogs)
· Shows popularity of web sites including searches and blogs
What Are Other People Saying?
There are many places to stay involved in the industry, get the news first, and “hear” people in the business discuss what’s hot.
E-mail Discussions
Often called “listservs” discussions between groups of people with similar interests who are all on a distribution list to see messages from all.
· Find discussion groups and usenet groups
· Find discussion groups/mailing lists
Newsletters, Magazines
· Also called e-zines
· Specific, e-mail delivered newsletters
· Many collate news from industry sources and discuss hot topics
· Find electronic journals and newsletters
· Find paid and free journals – printed and electronic
· Searches hundreds of print and electronic publications.
· Searches more than 300 magazines and journals.
On-line Forums
· Also called bulletin boards, newsgroups
· Find out what people are “saying” about your client in these casual settings.
· Searches Web, News, Discussion Groups, Multimedia, Companies & Organizations and Careers. Or choose just a few!
· Search 6 online forum sites at once
Google Groups/ previously Deja.com
· You can search postings by date, author, content, group and more.
Opinion Sites
Find out what consumers think of a product or service.
Using Automated Tools
These tools are also known as Bots or Intelligent Agents. Get news, updates, changes to web sites delivered to your e-mail. This is not category information, rather it’s personalized to exactly what you want to track by keyword search.
Newsbots
· Click on NewsAlerts – top right hand corner
· Register
· Set up alerts for client, competitor, industry
· Set e-mails to “as they happen”
· Have e-mail forwarded to your business account
· Subscription required
· Additional cost for Custom Clips
Updated pages
· TracerLock can monitor search engines, usenet groups and more for you and notify you by e-mail when a new instance of a search term is found. For example, if you tell TracerLock to monitor search engines for the phrase "Scherer Cybrarian," TracerLock will e-mail you when new pages appear on the web containing the word "Scherer Cybrarian."
Change Detection (so you can let YOUR users know if YOUR website changes!)
Local Information
RSS Readers
Netnewswire (Mac)
Find feeds
Newsletters
Topix (find the topic and choose email alerts at the bottom!) There are 360,000 topics…
Industry News Alerts
Statistics
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Wikipedia (careful with attribution!)
Finding Specific Information
Is a particular company public?
Find ticker symbols using Yahoo Finance or Google Finance. If the company has a ticker symbol, then it is public.
Where can I find the financial and other filings for a public company?
Where can I find 990s?
Who owns a web site?
Where can I find trade shows?
Where can I find military and economic competitive intelligence?
Economic and Competitive Intelligence
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