| Business
Resources |
Description |
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D&B
provides fee-based corporate information which can be useful
both in competitive research and in making credit decisions
or decisions on other business relationships. |
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This
site allows you to perform searches on corporations through
the online EDGAR database. |
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A
site which provides fee-based research from public-record
sources. |
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Hoover's
is a provider of business intelligence and research information,
providing bsic information for free, and more complete corporate
profiles on a fee-based subscription basis. |
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The
Standard's website offers current and relevant news on the
business world, including the ability to search for corporate
information on public companies. |
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In
"The Business of Innovation," Red Herring's website
also provides current and relevant information on the business
environment as well as the option to research public companies. |
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IDC
is a corporate research organization. Their products and
services include: Subscription Services, Multi-client Studies,
Custom Consulting, Events, Individual Reports, and IDC Speakers
Bureau. |
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Business.com
is "The Business Search Engine." Essentially a
search portal, with business-related topics as the main
theme. They also provide a rich set of corporate info for
both public and private companies. |
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Part
of the Hoover's Online Business Network, this site allows
you to search on companies. |
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"The
gathering place for small business", IdeaCafe lets
you search for business ideas and see if yours is worthwhile. |
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A
web resource which allows you to do IP searches by topic
keyword(s) from among several patent collections. |
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Search
for biotechnology patents by keywords or by quarter. Access
information on biotechnology patenting issues. |
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Conway
provides demographic data for the development industry. |
| General
Web Resources |
Description |
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The
premier starting point for searches, listing every major
search engine, portal, magazine, and subject! |
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A
website which specializes in lists of all kinds. |
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This
site provides a portal to all sorts of information. |
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Simply
an online dictionary. |
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A
search portal from media sources. |
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InfoSpace
is a typical search portal. |
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Lycos
is another search portal. |
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Yahoo
is another search portal. |
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Excite
is another search portal. |
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HotBot
is another search portal. |
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Alta
Vista is another search portal. |
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DMOZ
is another search portal. |
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Ask
Jeeves literally allows you to type in a free-form question
to get an answer. |
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Direct
Hit is an Ask Jeeves service. |
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Fast
is another search engine. |
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Google
is strictly a search engine; no frills, just good searching. |
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Unlike
other metasearch tools, Dogpile organizes results by the
sites it gathered them from. |
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This
search site works well when searching for general information.
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This
is a search engine for search engines. You can download
the software free of charge, type in your keyword and it
will search 10 -15 engines for a match. |
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Britannica
provides yet another search portal. |
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Contentville
bills itself as the "cross-content" search portal. |
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A
web site which is informative about maximizing the effectiveness
of searching and visbility on search engines. |
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A
search portal for geographic information. |
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"Advanced
Business Intelligence" from numerous sources. |
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"Informing,
Educating and Entertaining you with usable data, ideas,
experts and info about the Internet industry. " |
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Quicken
provides both accounting software and links to business
information, travel sites, stock quotes, research, news. |
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The
prerequisite for using this primer on the legal system is
a browser, not a law degree. |
| Library
& Media Resources |
Description |
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The
starting point for searching the Monroe County library system. |
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The
home page for the U of R libraries. |
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The
front page for the U.S. Library of Congress, allowing you
to search into their collections. |
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This
site allows you to get stock quotes from NASDAQ and other
exchanges. |
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The
home page for the Wallace Library at RIT. |
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Newsweek
Magazine Online. |
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SciBase
is The Scientific World's searchable database of more than
12 million research articles published since 1993 from 20,000+
journals. This database is FREE to search, however you must
pay to buy the articles which are returned as results. |
| Telephone
& E-mail Resources |
Description |
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AnyWho
allows you to find individuals or companies through a phonebook
look-up. |
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Another
website providing phonebook and e-mail lookups. |
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A
portal to several phonebook and e-mail search engines. |
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Yet
another phonebook and e-mail lookup portal. |
