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Category Archives: Web tools

7 Jul

How To Find the New Web Page

I don’t regularly check the currency of the links in prior postings, but you may have realized that many links on the Internet are good one day and dead the next. One way to find the new page is to...
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Criminal, Public Records, Web tools 2 Comments

17 Sep

This week in free sites on the Web: SSN decoder – California historical newspapers, state and university archives – social media search engines

I’ve pointed to this collection of free people finding and genealogy tools before. The site wizard, Steve Morse, has added a Social Security number decoder for matching the state of issuance with the number range. It’s a handy place to...
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Public Records, Web tools 1 Comment

17 Aug

More Oakland California crime mapping

The folks at Oakland Crimespotting have elegantly rendered the crime data (if such attributes can be applied to crime) from the Oakland, California CrimeView, operated by the Oakland Police Department. The Web page opens with crime-specific color coded icons placed...
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California, Criminal, Public Records, States, Web tools 1 Comment

2 Jun

Do you use search engines?

I spend much of each work day developing profiles of people and companies through Internet research. Private investigators aren’t usually just looking for a specific piece of information but everything that is in the public sphere. In this case, on...
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Blogs, Conferences, Web tools 3 Comments

31 May

Google mapping enhancements

Google has expanded on its Google Maps feature with two enhancements: My Maps and Street View. Street View is street level photographs of buildings and intersections along the corridors of roads in selective cities. This will remind you city photo...
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9 May

This week in Internet search: ND Courts, RI DOC, DormItem

Courts The North Dakota Supreme Court district court calendars and court case information can be searched by name, citation number, or case number. Municipal court case information is also available for Bismarck, Mandan, Dickinson, Williston, Minot, Devils Lake, Jamestown, Wahpeton,...
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North Dakota, Public Records, Rhode Island, States, Web tools Leave a comment

27 Apr

Database of the Day: Live tracking of disasters, incidents and threats

This is the sort of topic that those of us in a fairly offbeat line of work, with a twisted sense of the world -which pretty universally applies to private investigators- can appreciate and put to practical use. Let’s start...
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Databases, International, Web tools Leave a comment

14 Nov

A Wiki that profiles domains

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...
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Reference, Web tools Leave a comment

7 Nov

Background searching through social networking sites

A report issued by CareerBuilder concludes that 1 in 4 hiring managers have used the Internet to check the background of prospective employees and what they find is a lot of dirt. Of those hiring managers who used Internet search...
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Databases, Research Methods, Web tools 2 Comments

9 Oct

Finding books using the Internet

WorldCat is a single Web site that searches library collections worldwide. More accessible than your local library’s online catalogue, WorldCat also enables you to search through multiple libraries to find resources by name, author or keywords. The DeweyBrowser, a project...
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