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Scan millions of listings by name or e-mail address.                
http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/email.html
http://www.bigfoot.com
http://www.four11.com
http://www.whowhere.com

Find someone on the Internet.
http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/InterLinks/phone.html

E-Mail address searching FAQ.
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/bigfinding.html

AT&T Nationwide Toll-Free 800/888 Directory.
http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/

Find people who have recently moved by e-mail, domain name, address or name.   http://www.semaphorecorp.com/default.html

Find a zip code for a city for a city from a zip code.
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html

MapQuest: Customizable, highly accurate nationwide street-level mapping.
http://www.mapquest.com/

Scan the Social Security Death Index for the potentially dearly departed.
http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm

MetaCrawler: Search multiple search engines simultaneously.
http://www.metacrawler.com/

Are you being talked about? Search by name or subject across all areas of the Internet, newsgroups and mailing lists.
http://www.reference.com/

Find out where and when a Social Security Number was issued.
http://www2.smart.net/mcurtiscgibin/ssn.html

 

Finance

Visit the Motley Fool: stock advice for ``fools."
http://www.fool.com/

Search Securities and Exchange Commission filings for publicly traded companies.
http://www.sec.gov/cgibin/srchedgar

 

Government

Find Federal Election Commission political donations information.
http://www.tray.com/fecinfo/

Look at Congressional voting records:
http://www.pathfinder.com/@@2iwTdgcA@ffc1jfP/CQ/

Find your congressperson.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Congressional district demographics and rankings.
http://www.frc.org/heritage/cd_ranking/ivital.html

Audit of FBI activities:
http://trac.syr.edu/tracfbi/

Will the IRS audit your activities? What about theirs?
http://trac.syr.edu/tracfbi/

Law

Read the existing statutes, case law and codes in all 50 states and the Federal Codes. Lots of Federal resources for legal research.
http://www.lawguru.com/search/lawsearch.html

Published Supreme Court opinions:
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Looking for lawyers: They are all listed here, in the most comprehensive law firm listings in the country.
http://www.martindale.com/marhub
http://www.wld.com/

Names, addresses and telephone numbers of county courthouses.
http://www.familytreemaker.com/00000229.html

 

Libraries and Public Information

Visit the Library of Congress online.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/

New York State professional licenses and complaints: find a professional, dish for dirt.
http://www.nysed.gov/prof/profhome.htm

Afraid you've got a lemon? Find the defects in your car.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/complain/compmmy1.cfm

 

Medicine

The most complete listing of physicians on the Internet. Find out if that guy in the white smock really is a licensed doctor.
http://amaassn.org/

 

Military

Look up enlisted personnel or find the latest Pentagon PR flacks.
http://www.mco.com/mco_sample_search.html

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