30 October 2001. This advocacy site reports on corporate activities worldwide. While visitors cannot search or browse the site by company name, they can enter a company name as a keyword query to find relevant news items. The site also offers research tips and strategies for finding information about companies -- public or private -- or industries. Some of the issues it follows include biotechnology, globalization, oil, gas and coal, sweatshops, World Bank, and more. 29 October 2001. Revised 17 December 2001. Search messages posted to public newsgroups since 1981. 7 August 2006. A project of the California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology, GreenScanner lets you look up consumer opinions about products. Search by UPC to find, or offer, an opinion about a product. The focus and intent of the resource is on the environmental friendliness of products. 28 August 2000. Want to buy computer hardware or software from an online vendor? Do you know anything about it? This site solicits consumer opinion about online computer vendors, and then rates a company accordingly. Currently offering evaluations on more than 1300 businesses, the site provides an overall score (e.g., 6.3/7.0 for Amazon.com) and the total number of affirmative and negative responses to its questions. It also reproduces the questions asked. 26 February 2007. ResearchBuzz offers a custom search feature using the Google search engine. The customized search engine enables querying the official blogs of more than 125 politicians, actors, comedians, musicians, companies, libraries and other sources. 5 February 2002. BotTechnology.com, in partnership with Intelliseek and Answerpal, offer this subscription tracking service for monitoring trademark use on the Web. Covering eight types of resources -- domain names, publications and catalogs, message boards, the publicly-accessible Web, newspapers, Usenet, Web feeds, and trademark databases -- TrademarkBots.com searches for potential infringements based upon your criteria. Some of its information sources include Network Solutions Whois database, Canadian, United Kingdom, and United States trademark databases, Google Groups, Board Reader, Motley Fool, and other message boards, many regional, national, and specialty news sources, various trade magazines, DayPop, Moreover, and other blog and news Web feeds, Google, AltaVista, and many other search engines. The bot reports back with matching results based upon the frequency you set. Some of the more interesting finds on bots I established for The Virtual Chase include use of the key phrase for generating advertising at major search engines. Currently, the site offers a 21-day free trial period. Revised 21 April 2008. Find Web sites devoted to public opinion. Pay particular attention to those under this heading and the subheading, Boycotts. |
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