Private Investigator Public Records Internet Search Privacy Reporting – PI Buzz

• Website Information, Analysis & Research Tool

  "Find out how good a site is. Get comprehensive website details. Discover competitors.\n\nSee people, traffic data, similar sites, social comments, description, social popularity and much more about websites" Identifies executives for public companies.

• How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case

  Legal strategies and necessities.

• Internet Service Provider List

  "site and ISP list is for law enforcement use and contains a variety of ISPs and similar information services, specifically, contacts at the legal departments for law enforcement service of subpoena, court orders, and search warrants."

• ICE Online Detainee Locator System

  "Locate a detainee who is currently in ICE custody, or who was released from ICE custody for any reason within the last 60 days."

• Companies, Executives – news and profiles

   

• Reviews and profiles of companies

  Salary and compensation and employee reviews for some companies.

• Intelligence on directors, executives, and their relationships

  "executive and board member biographical information" Shows interlocking directors. Fee service with free trial.

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SaveYourCall.com – Record Calls.
Record Phone Conversations. Cell Phone Record. Record Conversations.
Record Cell Phone Calls
http://www.saveyourcall.com

Nationwide
search for real estate agents by name
http://www.realtor.org/rofindrealtor.nsf/pages/FS_FREALTOR?OpenDocument

Search by name or business to ID POE and local board.

H-2A
Public Job Registry
http://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehPJR.dspPJRExternalCases&state=ALL

Selected
Guide to Sources for Genealogy California History Room
http://www.library.ca.gov/calhist/pdf/genealogyguide.pdf

City directories, newspapers, vital records, voter registration

Naturalization
documents for residents naturalized in Contra Costa County
http://www.cocohistory.org/frm-resources.html

Naturalization documents for residents naturalized in
Contra Costa County from 1850 to the 1980s.

Bing
Query Language
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795667.aspx

“Bing Query Language enables the incorporation of
advanced operator syntax in requests sent to Bing Application
Programming Interfaces. Advanced operator syntax is syntax that enables
you to refine a query.”

California
Recorded Documents by county
http://www.ca.gov/OnlineServices/OS_Government_documents.html

“Search fictitious business names, deeds, mortgage
documents, easements, power of attorney, liens, and other documents
which affect title to or possession of real property – by county
clerk/recorder’s office.”

California
Property Searches by county
http://www.ca.gov/OnlineServices/OS_Consumers_propsearch.html

Public
Records Searches – State of California
http://ca.gov/OnlineServices/OS_Government_records.html

Links to State government public records and some
county records (inmate locators, vial records)

Public
Records Resources Online : How to Find Everything There Is to Know
About “Mr. X”
http://www.governmentinfopro.com/PublicRecordsGuide.pdf

Resources
and Guides: Government, Legal, References, Courts
http://www.justice.gov/jmd/ls/resource_guides.htm

Guide to Court
Resources by State
http://www.justice.gov/jmd/ls/state.htm

California
County Recorder Clerk’s Offices – URL Link
http://www.co.el-dorado.ca.us/countyclerk/other_rec.html

The
Real Life Social Network
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2

Social networks are changing how we connect to people
but we still mostly relate to a small handful of people on a regular
basis.

Country search engines and
Regional Search Engines
http://www.philb.com/countryse.htm

The
Secret Life Of Teens Online
http://www.darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/privacy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702001

“Among the unsettling findings, 69 percent of 13- to
17-year-olds have included their physical locations on the social
networking status updates; 28 percent chat with people they don’t know;
43 percent revealed their first name; 24 percent, their email address;
18 percent, a photo of themselves; and 12 percent, their cell phone
numbers. More than 15 percent of 13- to 15-year-old girls shared a
physical description of themselves.”

San Francisco
Homeless Resource Directory
http://sfhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

San
Francisco Pantries that give away free groceries or produce
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/pantry_english.pdf

San
Francisco Free Eats – Places to get free food
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/eats_english.pdf

San
Francisco Mental Health Services
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/mental_english.pdf

San
Francisco Free Medical Care Facilities
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/medical_english.pdf

San
Francisco Homeless Shelters
http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/shelter_english.pdf

One-Step Webpages – Genealogy, Search
Engines, Census, Vital Records, SSDI
http://stevemorse.org

Phone
Number Location Lookup
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/phonelocation.asp

“Phone Number Location Lookup” Enter the partial phone
number or city to get location, carrier, type of service (landline or
cell).

Geographical Data –
Places, Landmarks, Cities, Counties, Maps
http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos

“Your One Stop for Finding and Using Geographic Data”

First Names Reference Database
http://incompetech.com/named

Name variations and origins

Audio
transcription service
http://www.magiscript.com/home?d=1277079394673

Open Government Guide to accessing
public records in all 50 states
http://www.rcfp.org/ogg

Search
Engine Tutorial
http://www.brightplanet.com/images/uploads/12766231881-SearchEngineTutorialFormatted041218.pdf

Teen Chat Acronym Decoder
http://www.teenchatdecoder.com/

Search trending words, phrases
and links
http://www.blogpulse.com/trend

“…visually track “buzz” over time for certain key
words, phrases or links.”

Boardreader – Forum Search Engine
http://boardreader.com

Search conversational web: forums, microblogs, images,
videos

Outlook Plugin to Search People, Email,
and Attachments Instantly
http://www.xobni.com

“Xobni for Outlook, the sidebar that makes searching
your inbox and finding information about your contacts fast and easy.”

Sherman Library &
Gardens – Repository for Polk City Directories
http://www.slgardens.org/default.asp

2647 East Pacific Coast Highway
Corona del Mar, CA
92625

Website design : Flavors.me
http://flavors.me

“Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant and
dynamic website using personal content from around the web for only $20 a
year.”

Web monitoring
http://www.tracerlock.com

Fee-based “web monitoring/web clipping service.”

Google Map of US Rest Areas
http://restareas.appspot.com

Markers for approximate location of highway rest stops.

Common
Mistake Makes Tweets Invisible
http://adriandayton.com/2010/06/common-mistake-makes-tweets-invisible

Make @name tweets available to everyone.

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• Acronyms and Abbreviations and Texting Lingo

  "The Acronym Finder allows users to decipher acronyms from a database of over 600,000 entries covering computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military."

• Netvibes – Realtime information gathering

  Custom keywords monitored on the web.

• A Guide to Facebook’s New, Simpler Privacy Controls

  Settings changes as of May 2010.

• Plastic Bag Recycling

  Sites that accept plastic bags for recycling.

• Prize winner employees at major retail companies

  Search by name at Google, with site search.

• Unclaimed Property Recovery & Reporting

• Online Reputation Research

  "Research commissioned by Microsoft in December 2009 found that 79 percent of United States hiring managers and job recruiters surveyed reviewed online information about job applicants." Download the pdf study.

• Find A Grave – Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials

• The Best Twitter Tools and Twitter Apps – oneforty

• California Live Scan Locations

  California LIVE SCAN Fingerprint Services Locations

• Licensed Health Facilities in California

  Search all the licensed Long-Term Care facilities or Licensed Hospitals in California and get complaints and citations.

• Mexican Records Searches

• Advice For Scam Victims

  "Report Scams: What To Do If You Get Scammed"

• Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites

  Search for availability of profile names at multiple social networking sites.

• Unclaimed Property and Escheat Law

• Street Name Lookup

  "Enter a 5-digit ZIP Code to get a list of all the unique street names in the ZIP Code. Or enter all or part of a street name to get a list all the matches nationwide."

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• Drugs and the Drug Trade – Street Names

  "Load of Laundry" has an alternative use… This site works with Internet Explorer only.

• Executive PayWatch Search 2010

  Research company officer names, companies and pay of executives.

• Employment Screening Research and Employment Links

  "Compliance Resources Employment Screening Background Checks "

• FamilySearch.org – Family History and Genealogy Records

  19th and 20th century genealogical – census, vital, passenger records.

• Maryland Estate Search

  Search the Register of Wills.

• Missing Money – Unclaimed Property Related Links

  "Unclaimed Property Related Links"

• Check Emergency Medical Personnel Status

  The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) keeps a list of individuals who have gained and maintained status as a Nationally Certified First Responder, EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, and/or Paramedic.

• Pill Identification

  "Pill Identifier Search by Imprint, Shape or Color"

• FedSpending.org

  "full spending data for federal contracts"

• SEC EDGAR Full-Text Historical Search

  2-week free trial

• Commodity Futures Traders

  "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registration and NFA membership information"

• Enron Email Dataset

  "This dataset was collected and prepared by the CALO Project (A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes). It contains data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron, organized into folders."

• Pfizer payments to doctors database

  "2009 Health Care Professionals Payments Disclosure Report"

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• Compensation – University of Miami – School of Medicine

  Faculty Compensated Outside Professional Activities in the University of Miami Health System

• Firearms laws by state

  Summaries of State and Local Firearms Laws

• Expert Witnesses & Consultants

  Find legal expert witnesses, mediators and professional resources. Add your own listing.

• Workplace Verification | Businesses Using E-Verify

  "This database is a nationally accessible database of immigration status information, including more than 60 million records. "

• Stats about all US cities – real estate, relocation info, house prices, home value estimator, recent sales, cost of living, crime, race, income, photos, education, maps, weather, houses, schools, neighborhoods, and more

  "over 74,000 city photos not found anywhere else, graphs of latest real estate prices and sales trends, recent home sales, home value estimator, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment…), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, registered sex offenders, cost of living, housing"

• Online Federal Court Opinions

  "Members of the public are advised that not all opinions and rulings, even by participating judges, are necessarily posted to this page."

• Asian Name Pronunciation Guide

• Learn How To Pronounce Names Correctly

• Pronounce Names – Dictionary of Name Pronunciation
  

• The Traceability of an Anonymous Online Comment

  "Yesterday, I described a simple scenario where a plaintiff, who is having difficulty identifying an alleged online defamer, could benefit from subpoenaing data held by a third party web service provider. Some third parties—like Facebook in yesterday’s example—know exactly who I am and know whenever I visit or post on other sites. "

• Industrial products and services

  Search to find manufacturers, distributors and service providers -

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• 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.