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Category Archives: Research Methods

14 Aug

Find background on people through Internet search patterns

Researchers for the Internet service provider, America Online, recently released logs of searches conducted by site subscribers, which has been posted on the Web. The data is searchable by search terms, the domain address from which the searcher came to...
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4 Aug

Sell Internet research services to your clients

Facebook, MySpace, Linked In and even Yahoo! Groups are part of the booming social networking sites on the Internet that are a hot source of untapped background material. You probably check public records and personal information databases for background screening...
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Business, PI Business, Research Methods Leave a comment

28 Jul

MySpace wins the Web site popularity contest

MySpace, the social networking site, has been recognized as the most frequently accessed Web site, more popular than Google or Yahoo. That gives you some idea how important social networking sites are for background research. Apparently employers are using these...
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6 Jul

Cell phone use worse than driving while drunk

A preliminary study in 2003 found that drivers talking on cell phones were more impaired than those with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent. The peer reviewed article, recently completed, affirms the earlier conclusions. We used a high-fidelity driving...
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21 Jun

Internet research guides

If you want to research specific and reliable infomation on the Web you’ll quickly be presented with numerous annoying problems. I ask attendees at my seminars to name their most vexing recurrent difficulties when staring at results from a search...
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28 May

Must Have Desert Island Websites for Private Investigators

Must Have Desert Island Websites for Private Investigators are a few useful, everyday research Websites. It’s a starting point. While lounging on your desert island waiting to be rescued, or not, you’ll be wirelessly surfing the Internet. Many of you...
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Research Methods courts, grammar, phonebook, public records, USPS, weather Leave a comment

25 Mar

Questions? – Answers from the Internet

The Library of Congress Ask A Librarian is a free service that connects you by phone or the Internet to a reference librarian who will answer your general or topic specific questions. One of their new categories is the law....
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Research Methods, Web tools 1 Comment

18 Mar

Free real property search by owner

This is more of an Internet research tip than a pointer to a specific site. Many of the County Assessor website’s real property searches don’t return property owner names or enable a search by property owner. The Recorder sites are...
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California, Research Methods, States 2 Comments

18 Mar

Find a government website by keyword

I’ve been exploring the newly configured search portal, Firstgov.gov, a government operated site that searches state and federal websites. Your keyword searches can be restricted to a specific url or a single state. I was looking for different information databases...
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22 May

Fact Finding On the Internet

The Future of Information Gathering: Blogs, Search Technology and the Hidden Internet [UPDATE: This is an event from 2005.] You guessed it! June 22, Carole Levitt is rewarding CALI conference participants with a jam packed, practical seminar on using the...
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Research Methods Internet, research Leave a comment

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