Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category

• Create charts from data

• Browsys Search Engines

• Aviation Safety Network

• TweetsBetween – See recent tweets between twitter users!

• Montana State Death Index Registry – through 2002

• ChangeDetection – Know when any web page changes

• InfoMinder – Web page tracker

The rest of my favorite links are here.

• ChangeDetection – Know when any web page changes

• InfoMinder – Web page tracker

• Commonwealth War Dead and Cemetery Database

• Charity and Non Profit Organizations Status Database

• Latest tweets and twitter trends | Chirpcity

• Find local blogs – Placeblogger

• State and Local Government Search Engine

• Google search bookmarklet for social search across the web

• Find neighbors on a street

• California Newspaper Catalog

• International Soundex Reunion Registry

• Lawyer profiles and assessments – Avvo.com

• Greg Notess: Speaker and Presenter on Web Searching for Researchers

• California Genealogical Society and Library Catalog

• California Libraries Catalog – find materials and libraries

• The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues

• NamUs – National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

• Missing Persons Database – California Dept. of Justice

• Google Plus Search, Google Plus Directory | Find People on Plus

• Access to Adoption Records – Summary of State Laws

• Information and Instructions to Verify Social Security Numbers Online

• UK Company Information

• Interstate Compact Offender Tracking System

• United States Online Historical City Directories

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database of slaving voyages

The rest of my favorite links are here.

• Mexico Court Records

• California State Genealogical Alliance

• Ohio Birth Index

• California Courts case law – natural language search

• California Birth Index 1905-1995

• SearchTeam – real-time collaborative search engine

• LinkedIn’s Undocumented Search Operator

• Obituaries Database

• Ways to use LinkedIn to find people, track changes at companies

• InfoUSA Employer Database

• California – Current Notaries Public

• DISCOVERING FACEBOOK: SOCIAL NETWORK SUBPOENAS AND THE STORED COMMUNICATIONS ACT

• Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand

The rest of my favorite links are here.

A common complaint about search query results from search engines is that too many are unwieldy, returning far more than one can troll though. But that’s also the advantage of search engines — they grab a lot of content. Google makes it easy to build custom search engines of just the websites that you want to search. I’ve created many of these, some of which are in the “Resources” category on PIbuzz.

I’m in California and much of my due diligence work is based here so I have a particular interest in California content. And I want to track California news and issues on public records, open government and law. The newest addition to my search engines is California News, which just searches California newspapers. Select the link, formulate your queries and search content in all California newspapers. Let me know if I’ve missed any.