Best Search Tools For Business Students (December 2008)

This is my personal short list of the tools that I believe are the best, most useful, and most appropriate search tools for business students. There are many other tools, and each of these tools need to be used in a knowledgeable manner, but these are the set of tools that I would start with.

Web search General Google Kosmix Viewzi Integrative meta-search Info.com ixQuick Clusty Unified meta-search Search.IO IntelWays Web directories Yahoo Directory News search SiloBreaker Google News Yahoo News

RSS feed readers Bloglines Google Reader RSS search tools Google Blog Search Bloglines Search Tag-based sites Social news Digg Bookmarking Delicious Furl Academic search Scirus Google Scholar

Image search Google Images Google Face Search Pixolu CompFight (flickr search) Images at Google News Video search Truveo Blinkx YouTube Podcast search Pod-o-matic VideoSurf People search Google

Maps Google Maps National Geographic maps for printing Holt, Rinehart, and Winston maps CIA World Factbook Maps of current interest Map Maker Custom search engines Google Custom Search Engine Programmable power search tools Dapper Yahoo Pipes Page monitors Watch That Page