• Some Good News Before We Begin: Searching Can be Good For the Brain

• Mobile is All The Rage, Look What's Coming! Date Check

• We Have to Mention These: Google Voice and Google Wave

• Readability (So Nice on the Eyes)
  

• No Database or Web Resource is Perfect, Not Even Google

• Know About and USE a Wide Variety of Tools and Resources, Especially When Searching for People
  

• Build Your Own "Virtual" Reference Shelf, Keep it Organized (Easier Said Than Done)

• General Purpose Web Engines Like Google and Bing
  • Each has Strengths and Weaknesses

• Bing: Excellent Tool for Air Fare Prediction, Page Preview, Maps and Aerial Imagery
  

• Learn to Limit Your Google Searches from the Outset (Most of this Works on All Engines)
  • Site: 
  
  
  • Limiting to Only Specific Sites and Domains, Narrowing and Expanding is Easy
  
  
  • Limiting to Words in the Title of the Page
  
  
  • Google's "Advanced" Interface (No Need to Learn the Syntax)
  
  
  • CustomizeGoogle (if you are a Firefox User)
  
  

• Keeping Track of Web Page Changes, Keeping Track of a Persences Presence on the Web
  
• Web-Site Watcher ($)

• What about Social Media?, Verification is a Must

• Research from Nielsen: The More Affluent and More Urban are More Likely to use Social Networks in U.S.

• Facebook Now With Over 300 Million Users
• LinkedIn: 50 Million Users 
• Twitter: 18 Million Users in 2009, 26 Million in 2010
  
  • Many interfaces, the Three I Use Most Often:
    • Twitter's Own Advanced Search Interface
    • Just a Few Day's Old: Bing Twitter Search, Facebook Search Coming Soon
      
    • Collecta (Many Social Sites)
    • It's Worth it to Also Monitor, Search LinkedIn (Note Advanced Interface)
    • Better Searching with Facebook

• If You're Tracking People or Companies, You Might Want to Consider a Twitter Client
• I Use Seesmic Desktop (Can Also Track Facebook With It)
• Tweetdeck is Another Popular Choice, Both are Free
  

• Business: SEC Filings 
• Most of You Likely Have Fee-Based Alert Services but SECinfo.com is great, searchable, contains Canadian filings and offers free alerts. Heavy users have to pay. They'll Let You Know after a while. 

• Business: Salary Info from Those Who Work at Company, GlassDoor.com
• Business: Indeed.com Jobs (Is a Company Growing?)
• Business: Trulia (Real Estate) ||| CA Real Estate Guide
• Business: Housefront (Home Prices, Mobile Version)

• SkyGrid
  
• Real Time Finance and Business News (Automatically Updates Every Few Seconds)

• If You Don't Have Access to a University,
  Take ADVANTAGE of What Public Libraries Offer For FREE
• Here's Just One Example, San Francisco Public Library.

• Government and Legal
• Justia, Track Federal Court Dockets and Sometime Get Filings for Free, Search by Party Name
• U.S. Government Campaign Donations and Much More from OpenSecrets.org
• New and Easy to Use Database: Trademarkia
• Searching for Patents: FreshPatents.com, FreePatentsOnline, PatentLens
  

• Essential Tool for Web Research: Finding and Accessing "Old" Web Pages (via Internet Archive)

• Public Records, Finding People 
• NETRonline (Excellent for Finding Pub Record Databases from Local Governments)
• Various Lookup Databases via Melissa DATA
• SearchSystems.net ($)
  

• Finding People (Again:No Database is Perfect, Especially Free Services and These Tools When Combined Have the Potential of Being Useful)
• Spokeo, Social Web and WWW Content ($)

• ISearch, Possibly Useful Basic Real Estate Data if You Can Find the Person

• WhitePages.com (Note the Addtional Info it Provides Beyond A Phone Number Including Neighbors)

• Pipl, Metasearch, Found my Birth Month and Year

• Spock, Where I Used to Work, My Bio is Gone So Where Do I Go?

• Intelius ($) But Provides Some Useful Data for Free, Where I've Lived, Relatives

• PeopleFinders, Very Similar to Intelius

• ZoomInfo

• HighlyCited.com (Academics)

• Community of Science Expertise Database (Academics, Password Required, Free)

• Social Security Death Index
  
  
• Relationships Between People, Companies
  
• Muckety
• NNDB (Also Profiles on Over 37,000 People)
  

• Aerial Imagery + Local Data = TerraFly (You Know The Address But What About the Area?)
  
• Historic Aerial Imagery
• New: Google is Slowly Adding Parcel Data (No Info, Just Outlines) to Maps, Likely Data is Coming. Here's an Example for Santa Barbara, CA.
  

• TVEyes: What's on Television ($)

• Saving What You Find on the Web: Evernote
  
  
• Extra Time? Let's Chat About the Biggest Trend Today, Mobile Access to Information