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Associations and Organizations | Public Records | Bibliography | Find an Article | Search Engines | Search Engine/Site Analysis | Monitoring Consumer Trends on the Internet | News/Current Awareness | Portals

See also: General Business | Corporate Information | Industry Information | International Business | Marketing

Last Updated: 6/18/09

Associations and Organizations

• SCIP.ORG
  Helps develop expertise in creating, collecting, and analyzing information; disseminating competitive intelligence; and engaging decision-makers in a dialogue that creates competitive advantage.

Public Records

• Searchable Intellectual Property Databases
  Databases maintained at government, academic, institutional and commercial sites.
• Search Systems
  Source for free public records on the Internet.

Bibliography

• An introduction to online competitive intelligence research : search strategies, research case study, research problems, and data source evaluations and reviews
  Book HD 38.7 I56 2004
• Online Competitive Intelligence: Increase Your Profits Using Cyber Intelligence
  Book HD 38.7 B867 1999t

Find an Article

• ABI/Inform
  Index to periodical articles on all areas of business from U. S. and International publications. Covers 1971 to present and is updated weekly. Many articles are full text. CMU access only.
• Business News
  Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires & transcripts. CMU access only.
• Industry & Market News
  Search news sources by keyword and industry. CMU access only.
• Wilson Business Abstracts
  International English-language business magazines, covering accounting, finance, management, and small business. Covers 1986 to present and is updated monthly. CMU access only.

Search Engines

• All the Web
  Search specifically for web, news, pictures, videos, audio or FTP files.
• Alta Vista
  Search for web pages, news, images, audio or video files; or browse the directory.
• CompletePlanet
  Find information in search engines and deep web databases.
• Fagan Finder
  Brings together a wide variety of tools for finding information.
• Google
  Search for web pages, news, and images; or browse groups or the directory.
• Grokker Enterprise Search Management
  Live version of the enterprise search management platform, searches Yahoo, Wikipedia and Amazon books.
• Kart00
  Visual meta search engine
• WolframAlpha.com: computational knowledge engine
  Long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable.
  

Search Engine/Site Analysis

• All Net Tools
  Links to various site analysis tools.
• Domain Tools
  Various types of diagnostic widgets related to domain names.
• Netcraft
  Use the web server search to get a report on a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner together with additional data.
• Search Engine Chart
  Search engine partnership charts.
• Search Engine Watch
  Provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found.

Monitoring Consumer Trends on the Internet

• Alexa
• AOL Search: Hot Searches
• Ask.com Top Searches
• Bloglines Most Popular Feeds
• BlogPulse Featured Trends
• EveryZing
• Google Zeitgeist
• Lycos 50
• PhotoBlog Keywords
• Podcast Alley
• Yahoo Buzz Index
  
  

News/Current Awareness

• Business Wire
  Disseminates full-text news announcements from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences.

Portals

• CI Resource Index
  A search engine and listing of sites by category.
• Economic and Competitive Intelligence
  Links to information on Military, Strategic, Economic, Government, and Competitive Intelligence; also Intellectual Property, Infrastructure Protection, Technology Transfer, and Commercial Sites.
• Internet Intelligence Index
  Provides links to a large number of competitive intelligence sites.