Engines
- Merlindata - huge list of search sites for property,business,corp, gov... US mainly
- searchsystems.net - Public records directory
- everyzing, Searches visual and audio media
- SEC
- Internet Archive
- knuru - business, using natural language
- Kartoo
- Search for a Yahoo ID
- Seekers rose
- Google advanced search
- Inktomi
- Gigablast
- Google trends
- Librarians internet index
- They Rule - company connections
- Complete Planet - Find databases
- Scholarly internet resource collections
- WWW virtual library
- Oaister - Meta data search
- Virtual gumshoe public records search (very nice, many links)
- Virtual gumshoe search
- Surfwax - some very cool features
Clustering
- ixquik
- Quintura
- Clusty
- One term many engines
- Srchr - customizable multiple engines on one page
- Goyams - adjustable weighted search
Stock Info
- sagient reasearch - search private placements
- Fidelity - CUSIP search
- CUSIP service bureau - CUSIP search
- Email stock alerts
- OTC monthly share volume by MM
Classifieds
- Oodle
- Job spider - Jobs
Meta Search
- agent55
- Cohog - Semantic search (quite promising)
- Cross engine
- Dogpile
- Findforward
- Fybersearch
- Gnosh
- Grokker
- Golexa
- info.com
- Mamma
Anonymous Search
- Scroogle - Anonymous Google
- Anonymouse
- Black box - Anonymous Google, Yahoo and MSN
Law
- Justia searches Fedral US courts -Excellent tool
- California appellate court search
- California Courts
- Blawg - searches law blogs
News
- goarticles
- Nelson Search
- Find Articles
- wasa - news -blogs
- Topix
- Listing of US newspapers
- Newspapers.com
- Newslibrary.com
- Highbeam - searches magazines and papers
Continuous Searches
- Searchbots
- Swami - ongoing search that will email new daily results
- Allthat - ongoing search that will email/rss
- Ongoing and can track page changes
- Googlealert
- Ibiblio - US news archives
- Home town news - finds local papers
- Ibiblio - international news archives
- Ibiblio - Canada news archives
Deep Web
- Turbo 10 - Deep web search
- Complete Planet
- Lawyer tool - legal databases
- Direct search - deep web search
Records
- Googles US gov site search
- Search multiple GPO databases
- US gov web portal
- US vital statistics
- Pretrive - Public records
- Search fo US nonprofits (free reg needed)
- US copyright office
- Netronline - Points you to state and county public records
- Find a Federal inmate
- Links to free public records sites (nice)
- Links to all state websites
- Justia - free Federal courts
- PACER US Federal Courts (small fee and sign up)
- BrbPub public record portal
- Bankruptcy search
Deaths and Obits
- Cyndis list - Obits resource Canada and US and more (excellent resource)
- Deathindexes - US by state
- Social security death index
- Newspaper Obits search
Real estate
- Zillow - Find house values
- Yahoo - home values
- Trulia - Real estate search (with google earth installed this can be very cool)
- Cyber homes
- US land records registry
- Tax assesor database
- List of US property assessment databases
Telephone
- International dialing codes
- International phone directory
- Yahoo phone and addys
- Find 1-800 numbers
- Anywho - US phone numbers and reverse
- numberingplans- Find the general location of a phone number anywhere in the world
- International phone directories
Federal, State and city info
- US census bureau fact finder
- 50 states.com
- Us Federal Databases
- US Fedstats
- Excluded parties list - People not allowed to do business with the US government
- Blackbookonline - List of state public records search sites
- Florida State records
- Florida state Portal
State Corporate Info
- California Corp search
- Texas Corp search
- Nevada Corp search
- Florida Corp search
- Utah Corp search
- List of Secretary of state sites, coordinated legal
People
- Pipl - Deep web person finder, uses real time robots to search databases
- Search bug
- Zaba search, find people (very nice)
- Wink - search social networks
- Yoname - social networks blogs public records
- Filangy - Social networks
- Spock - People
- Linkedin - People
- Skipease
- Zoominfo - compiles webinfo on a person
- Namebase
Professions
- Docfinder - US only
- Find CPAs and firms
- AMA doctors
- Findlaw - find a lawyer
- Info on licensed occupations
- Martindale - Lawyer search
Political Contributions
- Who gave what?
Message boards
- Board Tracker
- Board Reader
- Posts on multiple stock boards
Economic and financial data
- Free lunch
- FDIC regional economic conditions
- US trade stats
- US economic indicators
- specialissues - Lists of lists
- Financial data finder - Portal from osu.edu
Blogs And RSS
- Technocrati - Blogs
- Feedster - RSS
- Opinmind
- Bookmach - Blogs and news
- Blogdigger
- Gigablast - Blogs
- Google blog search
Assorted
- Melissadata
- Industrial
- Aftervote (cool)
- Accoona
- BBB Search the Better Business Bureau
Local
- oddpath (local US)
International Business
- International Corporate info - free snapshot
- Brint - International business and papers
- Global Edge
- VIbes - 3,000 links to Internet sources of international business (all Free)
- Foreign sources, U of Michigan
- Tradeport - world trade info
- Kompass - Business Search engine
- Infobel
Canadian Corps
- Quebec corporate search
- Canadian Cease trade orders
Markets
Searching
Scam Busters
The Flashlight
Fun Stuff