Top 10 Business Sites

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At the end of each of our Business Information on the Internet workshops we ask the delegates to compile a "Top 10 Business Sites" list. The list from the most recent course is shown below:

Date of course: 6th October 2005

Yet again, we failed to to narrow it down to just 10 sites so we have another round dozen. The new Alacrawiki site came straight in at number one with agreement from all delegates that this is an excellent starting point for industry specific information. Europages and Kompass made yet another appearance and have been joined by Kellysearch from the directories category.

1. Alacrawiki Spotlights- www.alacrawiki.com - excellent evaluated, industry sector lists of free and priced quality sites.
2. Trovando - www.trovando.it - enables you to quickly run your search in several web, blog, image and reference search tools one by one.
3. Lists of links to Official Company Registers. Three were covered: http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/registers.htm , http://www.hrasg.ch/eng/welt-e.htm , and http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/links/introduction.shtml#reg
4. Trade Association Forum - www.taforum.org - good starting point for tracking down UK trade associations.
5. Europages - www.europages.com - free directory of over 600,000 companies in 35 countries
6. Kompass - www.kompass.com - database of 1.9m companies in 70 countries with excellent options for searching by sector and product.
7. Kellysearch - www.kellysearch.com - searches 2 million companies from the UK, US, Europe, Australasia, Africa.
8. Fita - International Trade Leads, Import Export Information - www.fita.org - good listings of business sources by country and industry under Really Useful Links.
9. Yahoo Finance and News - www.yahoo.co.uk - with the web database now being so heavily publicised, the excellent Finance sector covering the major stock markets around the world and the News section are often forgotten. The Finance section also has a link to a service that can supply Annual Reports as PDFs or hard copy free of charge.
10. RBA Business Information on the Net www.rba.co.uk/sources/ - this site listing business resources by type.

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