Desktop research tools

Intelect Solutions Ltd www.webintelect.com [email protected] ‘Training delivered by a practitioner for practitioners’ “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau Desktop research tools (July 2014) Links to other websites are inserted for convenience of investigators and researchers; they do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service. Intelect Solutions Ltd www.webintelect.com [email protected] General search https://www.google.co.uk https://www.google.com Your browser should default to a HTTPS connection Remember that results may differ or be re-­‐ordered when you use a different Google domain; consider others. A list can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains http://www.bing.com Use other search engines for greater coverage https://uk.yahoo.com Yahoo will also now default to HTTPS connection https://www.ixquick.com Meta search engine (and private) https://duckduckgo.com Meta search engine (and private) http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search Results that are clustered http://www.boolify.org/ Good to help you understand Boolean logic Domain and IP research http://supportdetails.com/ http://www.whatsmyip.org/ http://www.ipchicken.com/ http://centralops.net/co/ Check what your browser leaks about you Check your IP address and more info about you Clean and simple 50 free checks from one IP address Links to other websites are inserted for convenience of investigators and researchers; they do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service. Intelect Solutions Ltd www.webintelect.com [email protected] People search https://pipl.com/ http://webmii.com/ http://wink.com/ Worldwide people search tool Worldwide people search tool with ranking Worldwide people search Company research http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/links/introduction.shtml http://www.ebr.org http://www.landregistry.gov.uk http://eulis.eu http://companycheck.co.uk https://www.duedil.com http://opencorporates.com http://www.commercial-­‐
register.sg.ch/home/worldwide.html UK Companies House Links to numerous sites here European Business Register UK Land registry European Land Registry Free Company and/or Director research Excellent resource – one of the best! Worldwide company research tool Worldwide company research tool Links to other websites are inserted for convenience of investigators and researchers; they do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service. Intelect Solutions Ltd www.webintelect.com [email protected] Social Media tools http://socialmention.com http://twitterfall.com http://topsy.com https://twitter.com/search-­‐advanced http://iconsquare.com Trawls many platforms and reports trends Now need a twitter account to sign in Has improved Twitter advanced search page Instagram search (login not required) Translation tools http://translate.google.com http://www.freetranslation.com http://www.bing.com/translator http://tradukka.com/translate Probably the best known Versatile and easy to use Pretty good alternative to Google Always worth trying another Links to other websites are inserted for convenience of investigators and researchers; they do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service. Intelect Solutions Ltd www.webintelect.com [email protected] Some of our favourite Web Browser extensions (Chrome and Firefox) Ghostery Adblock or Adblock Plus Awesome screen shot Google global Collusion Save as PDF Chrome specific History eraser Chrono download manager Firefox specific Click and Clean Flagfox Links to other websites are inserted for convenience of investigators and researchers; they do not constitute endorsement of material at those sites, or any associated organisation, product or service.