Research

Competitive Intelligence

AffSpy - The ultimate affiliate intelligence tool.

Affiliate Elite - Affiliate marketing software allows you to increase the sales that your business generates. (A great tool)

Alexa - The web information company. Enter keywords or websites to search their web information database.

Business.com - Business products, services and solutions.

Clipping Service - Business listings.

Compete - Tap into your competitors online marketing strategies.

Competition Dominator - Dominate your competitors without them knowing it.

Competition Equalizer - Dramatically increase your AdWords profits and defeat your competition.

Competitrack - Full service advertising tracking firm.

Flippa - The #1 marketplace for buying and selling websites. You can learn much by looking at websites that people buy and sell.

Google Alerts - Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Trends - Shows trends based on your choice of query or topic.
 
Googlism - Find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything else.

Internet Archive - Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Also has the WayBackMachine.

iSpionage - Keyword research and competitive intelligence tools.

KeywordXRAY - Keyword research tool. (Is constantly, supposedly sold out - that may just be a "scarcity" marketing ploy)

Marketleap - Proprietary technology platform to deliver superior marketing results for clients.

Publist - Search a database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, and other periodicals.
 
Quantcast - Free measurement services to quantify the size and characteristics of those engaged with your digital media.

Quarkbase - Find out how good a site is. Get comprehensive website details. Discover competitors.

Social Mention - Real-time social media search and analysis.
 
SpyFu - Spy on your online competitors. Allows you to download competitors keywords and Adwords info.

Trellian - Compiles and analyzes internet usage statistics to create a powerful competitive intelligence tool.

Way Back Machine - Allows you to see how a website looked in the past. Over 150 billion pages indexed back to 1996.

Yahoo Site Explorer - Allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search.

 Metasearch Software

Copernic - Search tools and software.

K-Search - Meta search engine script.

Orbiscope - Metasearch and web monitoring software.

WebFerret - Get comprehensive results from multiple search engines.

Webseeker - Meta search software.

Research Tools

Find Articles - Find articles in business, reference, technology, lifestyle, newspaper collection and other categories.

Search Automator - Instantly discover content related to your serach from all the major information sources on the web.

Springwise - Network of over 8,000 spotters scan the globe for smart new business ideas.

Strongest Links - Designed to cut down the time and effort required to build a strong and lasting web of links to your site.
 

Research Organizers

MyStickies - Allows you to place yellow squares of digital paper anywhere you feel like on the Internet.
 
RawSugar - An unconventional search engine.
 
Surfulater - Permanently save information you find on the web, edit it, add notes, organize and tag it.
 

Phrase Alerts

CyberAlert - Media monitoring and measurement service.

Giga Alert - Solution for monitoring your professional interests online.
 
Google Alerts - Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

WebClipping - Media monitoring and analytics firm. They read, track and analyze millions of online sources.
 
 
Trend Research - Use the sites below to find and track trends.

Amazon

eBay Pulse

Google Trends

HammerTap

New York Times Best Sellers

Trends Research

USA Today - "Best-Sellers" books database.
 
Yahoo Buzz