Private Investigator Public Records Internet Search Privacy Reporting - PI Buzz

• FreezePage - Take snapshots of any Web page

• Oregon Department of Justice - Search For Consumer Complaints

  on-line database of complaints submitted to Oregon DOJ Consumer Hotline.

• Ixquick Search Engine

  "When you use the Ixquick or Startpage search engine, results will appear as normal, but underneath each link description will be a Proxy link too. Clicking it will allow you to visit a website, but remain private as it is loaded in an Ixquick privacy window. The downside to this is the page will load more slowly due to Ixquick having to retrieve it first, but if privacy is important then you probably won’t mind the wait."

• Witness Statements: Work Product or Not?

  California: witness statements taken by attorneys or their agents (private investigators) are subject to discovery.

• Foreign Labor Certification Data Center

  H1-B visa applications. From Foreign Labor Certification Data Center.

• Federation of State Medical Boards

• The U.S. Government’s Official Web Search

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• Cayman Islands General Registry of Companies

• National Motor Vehicle Title Information System

• Index of American Universities

  As home pages are found for American Universities granting bachelor or advanced degrees, they are added here, one page per university."

• Citation Styles, Style Guides, and Avoiding Plagiarism

  "How do you cite sources? The means to identify sources is to provide citations within your text linking appropriate passages to relevant resources consulted or quoted. This can be done through in-text parenthetic notes, footnotes, or endnotes. In addition, a bibliography or list of works cited, is almost always placed at the end of your paper. The citation system and format you use will be determined by the citation style you choose. "

• Authenticating Web Pages as Evidence

  "As you approach the witness with printouts of the web pages, you are stopped in your tracks: "Objection, lack of foundation." "

• Old telephone books and telcom museum

  "We maintain and operate one of the nation’s largest privately held telecommunications archives, operate two museums and conduct educational programs on telephone history."

• iMapflickr.com: Embeddable Google Map and Flickr Mashups

  "iMapflickr.com allows non-techie users to create fully customizable embeddable google maps of geocoded flickr photosets or search results. You can use it to create maps of your own photos, or other users."

• CrowdEye - About Us

  "CrowdEye is a new generation of search engine which looks at the worldwide web in a new way. By tracking discussions on Twitter, we can help our users find out what’s important to them right now in real time."

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• Search for files on the Internet - findthatfile.com
  “findthatfile.com’s mission is to provide the most comprehensive file search on the Internet encompassing Web, FTP, Usenet, Metalink and P2P resources (ed2k/emule) including 47 file types and 554+ file extensions including over 167 file upload services** like RapidShare.” ref:inter alia

• Kngine
  “We are working on new indexing technology to unlock meaning; rather than indexing the document in Inverted Index fashion, Kngine tries to understand the documents and the search queries in order to provide meaningful search result.” ref: inter alia

• State Cell Phone Driving Laws
  “Cell Phone Driving Laws January 2010″

• New Means of Communication: Employee Text Messaging Presents Unique Employment Issues : Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives
  “New Means of Communication: Employee Text Messaging Presents Unique Employment Issues”

• SlideFinder - Search engine for PowerPoint presentations
  Find PowerPoint slides

• Federal Contracts and Grants Portal
  “Current data includes all contracts and grants awarded by different government agencies. “

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• Public Records Searches - State of California

  Most requested public records online services with links to county and state business, crime, birth, marriage, death, real property, contractors, professional licenses records in California.

• Readable App - change the appearance of web pages

  "Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It transforms text on any website using fonts, colors, and layouts of your choosing."

• Topsy - A search engine powered by tweets

  Topsy ranks results based on how well they match your search terms, and the influence of the people talking about them.

• Are Fair Trials Imperiled When Jurors Text and Tweet?

  "Jury duty is bad enough, but imagine not being able to check your phone or e-mail to help relieve the boredom. That’s the new rule in Michigan, where trial judges are now required to order jurors not to use phones or other electronic devices while in trial or in deliberations. Telling your Twitter followers you are stuck at the courthouse is not likely to tip the scales of Lady Justice, but Googling for background info on a case is the legal equivalent of ripping off her blindfold. "

• Calling jurors back to court ‘extremely rare’

  "Accused by defense attorneys of violating a judge’s order, five members of the jury that convicted Dixon of misdemeanor embezzlement have been called to appear at a motions hearing Jan. 6, in which the mayor will seek a new trial. Dixon’s attorneys have accused jurors Nos. 3, 6, 8, 11 and 12 of becoming friends on Facebook, a social networking site, and sending messages to each other there, in violation of Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Dennis Sweeney’s order not to discuss the case."

• Michigan High Court Sends Message to Tweeters

  "recent cases in which jurors have caused a stir by using social media such as Twitter to communicate about their jury service. Taking the issue on proactively, the Michigan Supreme Court has adopted a new rule requiring judges to admonish jurors to not use electronic communication devices during trial, and not to use them during breaks to comment or conduct research on the case. "

• The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Courts - "Texting, tweeting tempt jurors, frustrate judges"

  "Indiana Supreme Court committee took up the issue of banning iPhones, cell phones, laptops, social network sites such as Twitter and Facebook, by jurors while they are deliberating a case."

• Kansas Supreme Court denies request to Tweet or make audio recordings

  "Kansas Supreme Court denies request to Tweet or make audio recordings

• No Tweeting in Federal Court, and why I think the Supreme Court should get on Twitter « Josh Blackman’s Blog

  Apparently sending Tweets during a trial is considered “broadcasting” and the Court can ban it according to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure #53. From United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2) (H/T Volokh),"

• The Top 5 Google Alternatives and Why You Should Use Them

• The Academic Tree

  "The Academic Family Tree is a nonprofit, user content-driven web database that aims to accurately document and publicly share the academic genealogy of current and historical researchers across all fields of academia. "

• MyFloridaCounty.com

  Search Statewide Official Records

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• Notary Public Database

  "Certificates of Appointment of Notary Public or Master are filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk where issued. A copy of each Certificate is filed with the Vermont Secretary of State for the purpose of certifying appointments, qualifications, and signatures of Vermont notaries public and masters. "

• State and National Archives in the U.S.

  "State and National Archives in the United States"

• Confronting the fact that jurors do research Trial attorneys should assume that, despite judges’ instructions, jurors will engage in illicit ‘e-discovery.’

• California "POST Background Investigation Manual: Guidelines for the Investigator"

  "The "POST Background Investigation Manual: Guidelines for the Investigator" provides guidance to assist background investigators in the conduct of background investigations of both peace officers and public safety dispatchers. "

• Twitter: Prohibited Jury Communications in Missouri

  "You are not permitted to communicate, use a cell phone, record, photograph, video, e-mail, blog, tweet, text, or post anything about this trial or your thoughts or opinions about any issue in this case to any other person or to the Internet,"

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The general reference reader-edited online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has spawned niche sites based on the same model and design. I stumbled on the domain directory wiki, AboutUs, which is self described as the “free directory about every domain in the world that anyone can edit.” This may be an advantageous supplement to your favorite domain whois.

And there’s a wiki for news junkies.WikiNews is similar to Newsvine, a participatory site that collects current news from readers and the major outlets.

Public libraries are a free source of periodicals and proprietary databases, many of which can be searched remotely. In Questions? - Answers from the Internet I included links to a list of public library Web sites and a real-time research librarian service. There are also online reference sites for specific regions. If you have a Connecticut library card you can make use of the 24/7 infoAnyTime, an online chat tool that connects you to a reference librarian. An added benefit of infoAnyTime is real-time Web co-browsing, enabling a researcher to guide you through your Internet search.

See a list of many of the virtual reference services available in the United States and internationally.

Legal journals and genealogical databases are a few of the many computerized resources offered by public libraries.

ePodunk is a commercial site of geographical place information drawn from government generated and commercial sources. A search by state and current or historical place name returns a large collection of links to local information, resources and statistics. Identify cemeteries, newspapers, companies, government offices and organizations, and data demographics.