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This is a brief selection of some of the sites that AWARE uses when looking for competitor and marketing intelligence. There are many more - we offer training in how to use the Internet for finding business intelligence. The list is biased towards UK / English language resources. This is not to say that major non-English resources are not important. They are. However to keep the list to a manageable level we have excluded local language sites - which include country specific search tools, local newspapers, and other business resources.
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Search Engines & Meta Search Engines
| Name | URL | Notes |
| Alta Vista | http://altavista.digital.com | One of the very best search engines - with considerable flexibility for advanced searching. Allows date, boolean and natural language search queries |
| Excite | http://www.excite.com | Incorporates Magellan and WebCrawler - run as separate services. Can also search by channels and for news. |
| HotBot | http://www.hotbot.com | The search engine with the widest coverage according to Science Magazine in April 1998. Powered by Inktomi and highly recommended. Also allows searches on geographical domains. |
| Northern Light | http://www.northernlight.com or http://www.nlsearch.com | The newest major search engine - classifying search results into folders. Also includes a "special collection" of indexed articles not found on any other source. The "special collection" moves Northern Light into a different league - and provides a quick alternative to the standard commercial news abstracting services like Dialog and Lexis Nexis |
| Lycos | http://www.lycos.com | One of the oldest of the major search engines. The name Lycos comes from the Latin for "wolf spider". Also includes a rating service called Top 5% where reviewers pick the "best of the web" sites. Smaller than Alta Vista, Excite and Northern Light - but still worth a look. |
| Infoseek | http://www.infoseek.com | Another old search engine. Smaller than Alta Vista, Excite and Northern Light - but still worth a look. |
| Yahoo | http://www.yahoo.com | Not strictly a search engine - but links to Alta Vista and most comprehensive search directory. As a result, should not be ignored. Excellent for finding company names - especially within specified industries. |
| LookSmart | http://www.looksmart.com | Not as comprehensive as Yahoo - but better if looking for further resources and industry pages. |
| Inference Find | http://www.inference.com/ifind | An excellent meta-search tool that groups results by subject rather than as a giant list. Taps into Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Web Crawler and Yahoo. |
| MetaCrawler | http://www.metacrawler.com | One of the earliest meta-search engines - and still one of the best. |
| Starting Point | http://www.stpt.com | Another major meta-search engine |
| AskJeeves | http://www.askjeeves.com | Allows natural language searches. Very easy to use - and helps searching by offering questions to clarify search query. Alta Vista uses AskJeeves algorithms for its natural language searching. |
| EuroFerret | http://www.euroferret.com | Searches for European domains. Claims to have indexed over 10.5 million pages. Available in 5 European languages. Page language detection is planned. |
| Europages | http://www.europages.com | A yellow page type directory for Europe. |
| UK Search Engines | http://www.ukplus.co.uk http://uksearch.com http://www.ukindex.co.uk http://www.ukdirectory.co.uk http://www.thebiz.co.uk http://www.yell.co.uk http://www.inbusiness.co.uk |
- UK Index Directory - A large directory of UK businesses - also sold as a print directory - Known as "The Biz" - The web version of the Yellow pages directory. - Thomson's version of the Yellow Pages, with a good search feature. |
| Name | URL | Notes |
| WhoWhere | http://www.whowhere.com | Search for e-mail addresses |
| Four 11 | http://www.four11.com | Search for e-mail addresses |
| World E-mail directory | http://www.worldemail.com/ | Search for e-mail addresses |
| What's new on the web | http://www.emap.com/whatsnew | Check for new web sites. |
| What's New Too | http://newtoo.manifest.com | Search for new sites |
| E-Zines Search | http://www.DOMINIS.com/Zines/ | eZines Database, The Ultimate Magazine Database |
| TileNet | http://www.tile.net/lists | Search for mailing lists |
| Liszt | http://www.liszt.com | Search for mailing lists |
| Newsbot | http://www.newsbot.com http://www.wired.com/newbot |
HotBot's news only search service |
| NewsTracker | http://nt.excite.com | Excite's news search engine |
| AT1 | http://www.at1.com | Taps into Associated press and other press databases |
| CompareNet | http://www.compare.net | Use to search for products available online |
| Deja News | http://www.dejanews.com | DejaNews is an essential tool for searching newsgroup discussions. Archives go back to March 1995. An important source for CI - and can be used to track company references and individuals. DejaNews also provides services to other search engine newsgroup searches - e.g. Excite, Infoseek and Yahoo |
| Reference.Com | http://www.reference.com | Reference.Com indexes mailing lists and discussion forums - as well as news groups. Use Reference.Com to find out what is posted to mailing lists, etc. |
| Forum One | http://forumone.com | Search over 65,000 web-based discussion forums |
| Name | URL | Notes |
| Business Information Sources on the Internet | http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business | An excellent resource of business information sites compiled by Sheila Webber of the University of Strathclyde |
| Corporate Information | http://www.corporateinformation.com | A list of company information resources in countries worldwide - from the Albanian Times to the Zimbabwe Trade Directory |
| A Business Researcher's Interests | http://www.brint.com/ | "A Business Researcher's Interests is a searchable knowledge map of Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues - with access to full-text articles & papers, magazines & journals, case studies, etc. |
| International Business Resources on the WWW | http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm | Another business resource list. |
| CIA World Factbook | http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm |
| World Trade Organisation | http://www.wto.org |
| United Nations | http://www.un.org/ |
| NATO | http://www.nato.int |
| European Union | http://www.europa.eu.int |
| Information Market Europe | http://www2.echo.lu |
| UK | http://www.open.gov.uk http://www.coi.gov.uk/coi (Central Office of Information) http://www.ons.gov.uk (Office of National Statistics) |
| Ireland | http://www.irlgov.ie |
| USA | http://www.loc.gov |
| Japan | http://www.mofa.go.jp/embassy |
| World News Connection | http://wnc.fedworld.gov (US government foreign news alerting service) |
| Securities & Exchange Commission | http://www.sec.gov | US public company information - including the EDGAR database. EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system holds submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Also useful is the EDGAR site itself, accessible from the SEC site. This offers a more graphical interface that is much easier to use. |
| Dun & Bradstreet | http://www.dnb.com | Dun & Bradstreet Corporations main site - with access to information on 17 million companies world-wide |
| D&B Europe | http://www.dbeuro.com | Access to D&B's European subsidiaries and the information they offer on the web. |
| Companies Online | http://www.companiesonline.com | US public company information |
| American Business Information | http://www.lookupusa.com | American Business Information site |
| Hoovers Online | http://hoovers.com | US company information |
| Transium Corporation | http://www.transium.com | News abstracts on 300,000 companies worldwide. An EXCELLENT resource. |
| Market Guide | http://www.marketguide.com | The Market Guide Investment Center provides company reports, quotes, news, price charts, and industry, sector and company rankings on over 10,000 equities trading on US stock exchanges |
| CAROL | http://www.carol.co.uk | UK Public Company annual report source. |
| Corporate Reports | http://www.corpreports.co.uk | UK Public Company annual reports. |
| ICC Plum | http://www.icc.co.uk | ICC's UK company information |
| Equities Direct | http://www.hemscott.com | UK equity prices - with broker opinions, etc. |
| Electronic Share Information | http://www.esi.co.uk | UK equity prices - with company news and share trend graph option |
| Kompass | http://www.kompass.com | Product and Company information world-wide |
| British Exports Interactive | http://www.britishexports.com | British Exporter information |
| QuoteCom | http://www.quote.com/ | Real-Time Share information |
| Market-Eye | http://www.market-eye.co.uk | UK Stocks and Share information |
| Business Monitor | http://www.businessmonitor.co.uk/ | Coverage of legislation and regulations, corporate finance, offshore finance, market analysis, economic analysis, risk management, property, consultancy, and worldwide business news |
| NCB Stockbrokers Daily Share Prices | http://www.ncb.ie/dprices.htm | Irish Stocks and Share information. One of a number of sites giving country specific financial information. |
| Name | URL | Notes |
| Frost & Sullivan | http://www.frost.com | Market Research supplier |
| FIND-SVP | http://www.find.com | Market Research supplier |
| Keynote | http://www.keynote.co.uk | Market Research supplier |
| Survey Net | http://www.survey.net | Internet demographic information |
| The List of Marketing Lists | http://nsns.com/MouseTracks/ tloml.html | A list of mailing lists of relevance to marketing professionals |
| Derwent | http://www.derwent.com http://www.derwent.co.uk |
Patent supplier with information from 40 patent offices worldwide going back 25+ years |
| Derwent Patent Explorer | http://www.patentexplorer.com | Patent Information in a JV with Microsoft |
| Micropatent | http://www.micropat.com | Trademark and Patent information supplier |
| European Patent Office | http://www.epo.co.at/epo | |
| US Patent Office | http://www.uspto.com | US Patent Office offers full US patents online |
| Patents.com | http://www.patents.com | A general site giving an overview of intellectual property (patent & trademark) information |
| Name | URL | Notes |
| Newspaper Mania | http://www.all-links.com/ newscentral | Over 3500 newspaper links |
| News Page | http://www.newspage.com | Filtered news from 600 sources |
| Total News | http://www.totalnews.com/ | Another news source |
| News Hunt | http://www.newshunt.com/ | Loads of newspaper links |
| CNN Financial News | http://www.cnnfn.com | Financial news from CNN Cable TV network |
| BBC News | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news | UK News source |
| Press Association | http://www.pa.press.net | UK press association site |
| Daily Telegraph | http://www.telegraph.co.uk | UK newspaper. Good finance pages and search facility. |
| The Economist | http://www.economist.com | Subset of Economist magazine |
| Euromoney | http://www.emwl.com | Euromoney magazine |
| Financial Times | http://www.ft.com | Searchable archive (free for last 30 days) and full content of leading UK financial newspaper |
| The Times | http://www.the-times.co.uk | Leading UK newspaper - with (currently non-searchable) archive |
| UK Business Park | http://www.businesspark.demon.co.uk | An excellent list of news headlines goingback 2 years, covering UK (& some European) companies and industries |
| Wall Street Journal | http://www.wsj.com | US premier business & finance paper |
| Search Engine Watch | http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ | A site tracking search engine performance. A good site to learn about how search engines work and their strengths and weaknesses |
| UK Business Credit Site | http://www.creditman.co.uk | European based credit management site with list of company information suppliers worldwide |
| US Business Credit Site | http://www.creditworthy.com | US based credit management site with list of company information suppliers worldwide |
| Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals | http://www.scip.org | Global society catering for the interests of CI professionals |
| Political military intelligence information sources worldwide | http://www.kimsoft.com/kim-spy.htm | A resource giving a number of other intelligence resource lists. |
| The CI Supermarket | http://www.CISupermarket.com/ | Resources for the CI professional |
| AWARE home pages | http://www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk | Your source for competitive intelligence, marketing and information analysis. |
| AWARE guide to competitor analysis | http://www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk/competitor-analysis.htm | A brief guide to the basic principles of competitor montioring. |
| Recommended books on competitor analysis and competitive intelligence | http://www.marketing-intelligence.co.uk/resources/books.htm | A list of books on business strategy, competitive intelligence and marketing available through Amazon. |
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