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Canadian Criminal Record Searches

Should your research involve backgrounding a Canadian citizen check out the report Understanding Criminal Records by the John Howard Society of Alberta. The report offer an excellent overview of the criminal records system in Canada as well as who can gain access to criminal records.

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

The revised edition of this excellent guide published by Sabrina I. Pacifici of LLRX.com is now available.

Google Fast Flip

Google Labs has made FastFlip active. This is a new way of looking at news headlines. Right now they are using 29 sources.

Search Engine CVGadget Finds Biographical Info

CVGadget is a meta search engine aggregating information from fourteen different search engines. Results include information from Google, Facebook, MySpace, ZoomInfo, pictures, videos, news and blogs.

Legistalker

Legistalker is an political data aggregator that tracks legislators  online activity. The database includes information from news sources, twitter, YouTube, and Capital Words updated every 20 seconds.

Searching Social Networks

Snitch.Name is a new social networking search engine in beta. The search engine allows you to search social networking sites along with general search engines like Google and Live, as well as government records. Search results are loaded on one page with a box for the results from each search engine.