Search Tools and Research Resources for the Online Investigator

July 29th, 2010
Search Engines

Ask
Bing
Cluuz
Cuil
Exalead
Factbites
Google
Google (Case Sensitive)
Google Total (Google Portal)
Kngine (Semantic Search)
Lycos
Mozbot
Quintura
Wolfram Alpha
Yandex
Yahoo
Yebol

Meta & Mega Search Tools

Addictomatic
Browsys
Carrot 2
Clusty
Dogpile
Eyeplorer
Fazzle
Glearch (Country and Language Specific)
IncyWincy
Ixquick
Jux2
Mahalo
Mashpedia
Metacrawler
Mr Query
Mr Sapo
PolyMeta
Scour
Soovle
Sortfix
Spezify
Trovando
Turbo10
Viewzi
YaBiGo

People and Company Finders

123people
411 Canada
Anywho International
Badoo
B4USearch (UK)
BW Company Insight Center
Companies House Worldwide Company Listings
Europages
Hoover’s (US)
InfoSpace
Intl White & Yellow Pages
Mint International Company Search
Numberway
Peek You
People Search
Phonebook of the World
Pipl
Researcha (EU)
SEDAR (Canada)
The Ultimates
Wink
YoName
Zabasearch
Zoominfo

Web 2.0, Social Media and Real-Time Search Tools

Backtweets
Blogdigger
Bloggernity
Bloglines
BlogPulse
Collecta
Factery Labs
Follower Wonk
Fwix (hyperlocal news aggregator)
Google Blog Search
IceRocket
Kosmix
LiveJournal
Leapfish
Monitter
One Riot
Rankspeed
SamePoint
Searchtastic
Snapbird
Surchur
Spy
Technorati
Trendistic (Twitter Trends)
Twitter Search
Whostalkin
Wikibuddy (Wiki Search)
Zesty Facebook Search

Video

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

Specialty Search Tools

Aneki (Global Statistics)
Cpedia (Cuil Encyclopedia)
Crazedlist (Craigslist search)
CiteULike (Academic Research)
Copyscape (Plagiarism Detection)
DocJax (Document, e-Book Search)
Docstoc (Document Search)
Eyeplorer (Graphical Knowledge Engine)
Flock (”Social Broswer”)
Google Scholar (Academic Research)
Infomine (Academic Research)
Jinni (Movies and TV)
Monitor This (up to 20 engines)
Opinion Crawl (reads public “seniment”)
Powerset (search Wikipedia)
Quertle (Biomedical Research)
RefSeek (Academic Research)
Scour
Scribd (Document Search)
Similar Sites
Typobuddy (misspelled eBay auctions)
Yoozila (Results with Preview)
Worldcat (Library Search)
Zakta (Social Search Tool)
Zuula

Username Search

Dial Username
Knowem
Namechk
Peek You
Snitch.Name
Spokeo
Username Check

Maps/Geographic

Bing Maps
Crime Mapper (UK)
Fix My Street (UK)
Google Maps
Google Earth
Geograph
Mapquest
Topo! Explorer
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
Springo
Spybot
Skype
Thumbshots Ranking
Touchgraph
Wikileaks
World Time Calculator
Write.fm
Zamzar
Ziki
Zotero

Proxy Servers and Online Privacy Tools

The Cloak
DDday
EPIC Guide to Practical Privacy Tools
Proxy For Free
Public Proxy Servers
Samair
Show My IP
Stay Invisible
Tor Project

News

Congoo
Evri (semantic real time searching)
Google News
Newscred (create your own newspaper)
Newspapers24
Newstrust
Press Display
Reuters
Silobreaker
Topix
Yahoo News
World News

Image Search

BYO (Similar Image Search)
Cyclops (Royalty Free Image Search)
Ditto
Elzr
Flickr
Fotoblog
Gazopa (Similar Image Search)
Google Goggles (Beta)
Google Image Search
Kalooga
Nachofoto (Real-time 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
Central Ops
Datopedia
Domain Crawler
Domain Tools
Domain Typer
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
UK Web Archive
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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