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UK Newspapers & News Sources
Major European Newspapers & News Sources
Other English Language News Sources (USA, Canada, Australasia, S Africa, and other countrie)
News Aggregators

Global Search Engines

The following are the main global search engines. There are also a number of other older search engines still available that use the databases of the search engines below. For example, Go, Inforseek, Altavista and Alltheweb all use the Yahoo! search functions and database, etc.

Google - Currently the most popular search engine - with considerable flexibility for advanced searching, including

Search Directories & Meta-Search engines

As well as the major search engines described above there are many smaller, regional and specialist search services, including some industry specific services (e.g. for searching specific topic or industry areas - law, finance, etc.). Some of these are listed under the relevant sections. The search tools listed here are more general or have features that make them noteworthy.

Open Directory - a human edited list of millions or web-sites, where each is vetted and approved as worthy of

Blog, news group and discussion forum searching

Searching blogs, podcasts, discussion forums and news groups can provide crucial information for competitive intelligence. This gives a small selection of tools that can help in this area.

Clusty - Clusty's blog search tool.

Invisible Web Searching and other search utilities

Research has shown that the vast majority of web-sites are never indexed by search engines. Many web-pages are now created dynamically from databases and so cannot be found. One approach is to use an invisible/deep web search tool to locate content held in subject or topic databases. The list below gives major invisible web search tools, as well as some tools to learn more about finding information

CompletePlanet - search thousands of databases through CompletePlanet

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AWARE News

Association Belge de Documentation / Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie INFORUM2009

Arthur Weiss, AWARE's managing partner led a session focusing on social networking and how this can be used to enhance marketing intelligence at ABD-BVD's Inforum2009: It's all about people conference at the end of April, 2009. The lecture showed how marketing and competitive intelligence professionals can use social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others as part of their portfolio of research tools.

For more information on these lectures and how we can help you become a more effective business researcher ask us about our courses on finding CI information.

WS Radio Interview

Arthur Weiss was interviewed by Paul Helm, the president of Strategic Research Network, as part of the InfoPro show on WS Radio - The worldwide leader in Internet talk.

Listen to the whole interview or in separate parts (around 10-15 minutes each)

Books - Smart Services

Recommended Book

Smart Services: Competitive Information Strategies, Solutions and Success Stories for Service Businesses
Deborah C Sawyer
Buy UK £ or US$

Read our review of this book

The front cover of "Smart Services" includes a quote from Andrew Garvin, the CEO of Find/SVP saying: "Finally a book that nails down what every service business needs to know about competition and competitive intelligence. 'Smart Services' offers competitive information strategies that firms can put to immediate use." I don't think that I could have given a better summary and description of this excellent book.

For a thorough review of this book check out FreePint's book review. (FreePint is an excellent portal site and discussion forum for the overall information industry, and is well recommended - and used by over 70,000 information professionals world-wide).

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Quick Tip: Frog in well

Quick Tip

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.(Attributed to Mao Zedung).

What is your perspective on your business environment? Are you missing opportunities because you only see your immediate industry or geographic location, when there could be new opportunities slightly further away or in related industries?

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