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UK Newspapers & News Sources
Major European Newspapers & News Sources
Other English Language News Sources (USA, Canada, Australasia, S Africa, and other countrie)
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Global Search Engines

The following are the main global search engines. There are also a number of other older search engines still available that use the databases of the search engines below. For example, Go, Inforseek, Altavista and Alltheweb all use the Yahoo! search functions and database, etc.

  • Google - Currently the most popular search engine - with considerable flexibility for advanced searching, including

Search Directories & Meta-Search engines

As well as the major search engines described above there are many smaller, regional and specialist search services, including some industry specific services (e.g. for searching specific topic or industry areas - law, finance, etc.). Some of these are listed under the relevant sections. The search tools listed here are more general or have features that make them noteworthy.

  • Open Directory - a human edited list of millions or web-sites, where each is vetted and approved as worthy of

Blog, news group and discussion forum searching

Searching blogs, podcasts, discussion forums and news groups can provide crucial information for competitive intelligence. This gives a small selection of tools that can help in this area.

  • Clusty - Clusty's blog search tool.

Invisible Web Searching and other search utilities

Research has shown that the vast majority of web-sites are never indexed by search engines. Many web-pages are now created dynamically from databases and so cannot be found. One approach is to use an invisible/deep web search tool to locate content held in subject or topic databases. The list below gives major invisible web search tools, as well as some tools to learn more about finding information

  • CompletePlanet - search thousands of databases through CompletePlanet

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AWARE News

In March 2012, Arthur Weiss, AWARE's CEO, was elected to serve as Membership Development Director of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). (Press Release). AIIP is the organisation for independent information specialists and has a global membership with expertise covering all aspects of the information profession. Visit the AIIP web-site to find out more and to join us. Arthur also led two pre-conference workshops at AIIP's May 2012 conference in Indianaposlis, USA.

Publications / Presentations

AWARE's CEO led a workshop on Online Competitive Intelligence at the Institute of Competitive Intelligence's conference in Bad Nauheim, Germany in March 2012 and gave a paper looking at how national cultures can influence primary research efficacy.

Other recent events included: training workshops held in Jakarta, Indonesia and Shanghai, China; conference papers / seminars at the Online Information 2011 Conference and at the WebSearch Academy, Internet Librarian International Conference.

See our presentation & papers pages for more information or to download these.

If you are interested in competitive intelligence training and workshops contact us, or visit our training pages. We offer custom training looking at all aspects of marketing & competitive intelligence including online research, marketing research, competitor analysis, scenario planning, war-gaming and much more.

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Books - Co-opertition

Recommended Book

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Co-opetition : 1. a revolutionary mindset that redefines competition and cooperation; 2. the game theory strategy that's changing the game of business
Adam M Brandenburger & Barry J Nalebuff
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Read our review of this book

Michael Porter described this book as "the most important single contribution" in taking his original ideas on ways of achieving competitive advantage forward. The book is easy to read, inexpensive and contains numerous ideas to help reshape and challenge thought processes. The writers develop Porter's 5 forces model, and introduce a sixth force. They emphasise the strategic advantages of co-operation and look at game theory as a way of approaching business strategy.

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Quick Tip: Questions

Quick Tip: Ask the right question

Rather than look for information to answer a question, think about how you will use the answer.

If you won't be able to incorporate actions based on the answer you find into your business strategy then maybe the question you asked needs changing to something that will lead to meaningful actions.

 

Competitive Intelligence Training

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Finding Competitive Intelligence using Online Sources

AWARE consultants are experts at discovering competitor information online and have developed a market-leading course on Finding Competitive Intelligence using Online Sources. This course has been given as an in-house course to numerous companies across industries (IT, publishing, telecoms, chemicals....) and countries, as well as publicly at SCIP annual and European conferences, the London International Online Information Conferences and other similar events.

The workshop has received high praise for its unique approach to finding competitive intelligence on the Internet. The workshop - available as a half-day summary, full day or 2-day in-depth training course with extensive practical online sessions - teaches attendees how to find actionable competitive intelligence rather than just present a list of sources that quickly date. Like all AWARE's in-house training, the course can be customised to focus on industry or competitive area.

For more information on this workshop and how it can help you become a more effective Internet researcher check out our Competitive Intelligence Training and ask us about our courses on finding CI information.

 

Our services in competitive intelligence research, competitor analysis and CI training will help you integrate and use competitive and marketing intelligence in your business, strategic and marketing planning processes. Whether you need research, advice or training, our mission is to support our clients so that they achieve their growth objectives.

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