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AlltheWeb AlltheWeb.com is highly respected search engine where you can search not only for websites but also for news, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files. Some may argue that its advanced search features are easier to use than those of many other search engines. On the advanced search page you can easily include word, IP address or domain name filters, and you can request that results are in a specific file format, that were created/updated on a specific date or are a specific byte size, and much more. You can also customize your preferences to the point where your custom-written queries will be stored and run for you. A good choice for advanced searching.

AltaVista Advanced If you want a quick look at your competitor's public presentation, with a peek at pages that may not turn up on a regular search, try out this AltaVista Advanced search trick. You'll get a list of all the internal pages of your target website, so you can zero in on the areas you really want to look at, without going through the entire site to glean the information you really need. Simply enter the command URL:// followed by the domain of your choice in the first advanced search box.

BetterWhoIs It used to be pretty easy to find out who owned a domain name and the related details, but with the growing number of registrars around since the industry has deregulated (with each registrar keeping its own database information) it's more difficult and time consuming to find what you're looking for. Enter BetterWhoIs.com, a service that instantly looks up the domain information from a shared domain registry. You can locate the registrar that has reserved the name, and query that registrar's database for the correct information on who owns it, when it was secured, expiration date, registrar and server name. Great time saver.

CISeek Did you know that there's an Association of Former Intelligence Officers? Discover them and more in The CI Resource Index, the competitive intelligence search engine. Additional categories include: education; companies; publications; software; and documentation, which contains numerous articles and tutorials on the art and science of competitive intelligence.

CompletePlanet The "deep" Web or "invisible" Web refers to all the content that resides in searchable databases online. Search engines don't pick up this content because the databases only reveal their content in response to a direct query in the form of a dynamic page. Once the query is over, the page disappears, leaving nothing for search engines to spider and categorize. Over the past years many companies have tried to tap into the invisible Web by offering tools that allow you to query thousands of databases at once. These tools can be a treasure trove of information and "deep" resources. Alas, many of the companies have disappeared over the years (or they have eliminated their free interfaces) but one remains - CompletePlanet. Here you can search 103,000 databases and specialty search engines in one fell swoop. You'll also find advanced tools to help you refine these seemingly vast searches into more manageable byte-sized pieces.

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Last Updated: Friday, March 12, 2004

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