Search Tools and Research Resources for the Online Investigator

February 2nd, 2010
Search Engines

Ask
Bing
Cluuz
Cuil
Exalead
Google
Google (Case Sensitive)
Kngine (Semantic Search)
Lycos
Mozbot
Quintura
Wolfram Alpha
Yahoo

 Meta & Mega Search Tools

Addictomatic
All Plus
Browsys
Carrot 2
Clusty
Dogpile
Eyeplorer
FastEagle
Fazzle
IncyWincy
Ixquick
Jux2
Mahalo
Metacrawler
Soovle
Spezify
Trovando
Turbo10
Viewzi

 People and Company Finders

123people
411 Canada
Badoo
B4USearch (UK)
Hoover’s (US)
InfoSpace
People Search
Pipl
Researcha (EU)
SEDAR (Canada)
Wink
YoName
Zabasearch
Zoominfo

 Blog, Social Media and Real-Time Search Tools

Blogdigger
Bloggernity
Bloglines
BlogPulse
Collecta
Factery Labs
Google Blog Search
IceRocket
Kosmix
LiveJournal
Leapfish
Monitter
SamePoint
Spy
Technorati
Twitter Search
Video

Blinkx
Bing Video Search
Clipblast
Dailymotion
Guba
Keepvid (download video)
MetaCafe
Pixsy
Searchforvideo
Tubesurf
Videosurf
Youtube
WWiTV

 Specialty Search Tools

Aneki (Global Statistics)
Crazedlist (Craigslist search)
CiteULike (Academic Research)
Docstoc (Document Search)
Eyeplorer (Graphical Knowledge Engine)
Flock (”Social Broswer”)
Google Scholar (Academic Research)
Jinni (Movies and TV)
Quertle (Biomedical Research)
RefSeek (Academic Research)
Scour
Scribd (Document Search)
Yoozila (Results with Preview)
Worldcat (Library Search)
Zakta (Social Search Tool)
Zuula

 Username Search

Dial Username
Knowem
Namechk
Peek You
Spokeo
Username Check

 Maps/Geographic

Bing Maps
Crime Mapper (UK)
Fix My Street (UK)
Google Maps
Google Earth
Geograph
Mapquest
Up My Street (UK)
Useful Web Sites, Tools and Documents

Akapost
Adaware
Cool Iris
Delicious
Digg
Go2web20
Intelligence Guide for First Responders
LinkedIn
Snopes
Sidekiq
Spybot
Skype
Thumbshots Ranking
Touchgraph
Wikileaks
Zamzar
Ziki
Zotero

 Proxy Servers, Anonymity, Anonymity Checkers

The Cloak
DDday
Proxy For Free
Public Proxy Servers
Samair
Show My IP
Stay Invisible
Tor Project

 News

BBC
CBC
CNN
Congoo
Google News
Newseum
Newspapers24
Newstrust
Press Display
Reuters
Silobreaker
Topix
Yahoo News
World News

 Image Search

BYO (Similar Image Search)
Ditto
Flickr
Fotoblog
Gazopa (Similar Image Search)
Google Goggles (Beta)
Google Image Search
Netvue
Pixolu
Photobucket
Photoblogs
Picsearch
PolarRose
SeekLogo
Smugmug
Sprixi
TwiPho (Twitter Images)
Tin Eye (Reverse Image Search)
V Like Vintage (Historical Images)
Webshots
Online Communities

Buzznet
Hi-5Bebo
BoardReader
Convicts Reunited
Classmates
Club Penguin
Craigslist
Facebook
Friends Reunited
Friendster
Google Groups
IMVU
MySpace
Nexopia
Ning
Omgili
Orkut
Xanga

 Whois, IP Lookups and Web Site Analysis

Cloaking Detector
Datopedia
Domain Tools
About This Site
Utrace
CheckDomain
Whois
Geektools
PCNames
Network Tools
Sam Spade
ARIN
LACNIC
APNIC
AfriNIC
RIPE NCC
Visual Route
Willy The Pig

 Reference Sites

About
Answers
Dmoz
InfoPlease
Oanda (Currency Conversion)
Refdesk
Reference
Wayback Machine (Archive of past Web Sites)
Webopedia
WhatIs
Wikipedia

 Language Tools

ForeignWord
Freetranslation
Google Translation
NoSlang
Systran
Translation Central
Ultralingua
Urban Dictionary
WorldLingo
Yahoo Babelfish
Yamli Arabic Translated Search

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