Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised October 2009 by Sabrina Pacifici (Oct 11)
This terrific guide to tools to use for competitive intelligence has been updated. It is geared to US researchers, but others will get value from the sections on general search, news search, blogs, some business, and the for-fee collection.
+ Selected Search Engines for Web, Blogs, Video, News and Alerts
+ Selected Business Info Websites, Databases, Blogs - Fee and Free
+ Selected Online People Tracking Sources
+ Television and Radio News Transcripts
+ Legislative Monitoring and Tracking
+ E-Newsletters, Online Newspapers, Journals and News Sources
+ Monitoring Trends, Companies and Products
+ Selected RSS Feeds From Business Related News
+ Identification of Company Legal Representation
+ Online Tools for Competitor Monitoring
+ Westlaw Watch and Lexis Trackers
+ Benchmarking and Country Profiles
+ CI Pathfinders and Link Collections
+ Web Directories and Portals
+ Website Trackers
There are a few general search tools on the list that I think are tired (Surfwax, Metacrawler and a couple of others), but generally this is a good guide for types of resources to use.
To the search section I would add allplus.com or its sibling polymeta.com for a metasearch that does topical analysis.
Posted by Gwen at November 2, 2009 12:36 PM