Rev Up Your Search Engines - Government and Business Search

GOVERNMENT LINKS

1. President Obama's memorandum on Transparency and Open Government
2. Data.gov - for serious government research
3. USA.gov -  direct access to information from the U.S. Government
4. GobiernoUSA.gov - Spanish version of USA.gov
5. Google U.S. Government Search 
6. USASpending.gov - tracks govt. spending, in the form of contracts, grants and etc.
7. Recovery.gov - See how Recovery & Reinvestment dollars are being spent countrywide
8. Maryland StateStat - See how Recovery dollars are being spent in the State of Maryland
9. Sunlight Foundation - 3rd party government watchdog
10. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Conducts research and analysis to help shape public debates over proposed budget and tax policies 
11. ProPublica.org - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporting organization 
12. Federal Citizen Information Center - printed or online government information 

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BUSINESS LINKS

1. Article on "Why Businesses Use Search Engines" 
2. Article on Search Engine Optimization - SEO 101
3. Business News portals in main search engines
   news.google.com
   news.bing.com
   news.yahoo.com
4. Finance portals in main search engines
   google.com/finance
   finance.yahoo.com
   bing.com/finance
5. Morningstar  - provides investment research, including stock and fund analysis, reports, and tools, as well as company, investing, and financial news.    
6. Hoovers.com - basic company profile info
7. Yellowpages.com - business lookup, people lookup, reverse phone/address lookup
8. Phonenumber.com - like Yellowpages
9. Wolfram Alpha money and finance computation exaples
10. Small Business Trends - award-winning online publication for small businesses and entrepreneurs.  ( Sample Article:  Social Media Do's and Don'ts)
11. AllBusiness.com - "Champion of Small Businesses"  (Example: How to run a business)
12. Business.gov - U.S. governments official site for small businesses
    (Sample article: The Ultimate Guide to Financing)
13. Small Business Administration - its job is to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small businesses.
14. Yahoo Local   /   bing Local  /  Google "Places" (check left sidebar for "Places")
15. Watch Twitter and Facebook for trends.  Article on using Twitter in a marketing campaign
16. Yelp.com -  a social networking, user review, and local search web site
17. Financial Times Lexicon - business dictionary

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