Research Tools

Web Search

Google A very useful search engine. Caches content.

Wikipedia List of Search Engines Includes Meta-Search and specilized domain search engines.

Internet Archive Periodically makes a copy of the Web. If the data is on a dead site, you may be able to find its ghost here.

News and Strategic Information

Google News Google links to news and resources.

StratFor Strategic Forecasting.

GlobalSecurity.org Washington think tank.

Federation of American Scientist Group monitors and explains defense related issues and technologies.

OSS.NET Open Source Intelligence.

Recorded Future provides open source analytics.

Language Translators, Money Translators, and other Utilities

The World is global in scope. These tools help make it accessible.

Google Translate

BableFish by Alta Vista Alta Vista Language Translator

SYSTRAN Language Translator

World Lingo Translator

Universal Currency Converter

Japanese Word Translator It is best to know Japanese syntax when using this tool.

Computer Science and Genetic Programming Search

Citeseer ResearchIndex Search engine for computer science research. Indexes and caches papers, including PDF and PS documents.

Bibliography on Genetic Programming Index maintained by Koza and Langdon.

Patent Search

Google's copy of the US Patent database

WIPO / WTO patent search page Global patent search.

Pat2PDF.org Given a patent number returns the PDF

US Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases United States Patent and Trademark Office. Patents free in QuickTime format files.

Delphion Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases Delphion US and foreign patent database. Patents in PDF for $3 each.