Dogpile

Dogpile is a metasearch engine that combines results from Google, Yahoo!, Ask, Bing, and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers. Dogpile began operation in November 1996. The site was created and developed by Aaron Flin. 

The characteristcs of Dogpile are: it cointains sponsored links, where the information was found, the possibility to have an advance search and to see images, news, videos and search in the white and yellow pages of the United States. There exists filters for underage; none, moderate and heavy. Finally it can bold the terms searched, show the last fifteen searches and share your searches in Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, Wordpress or Blogger.

One of the things that I like the most of Dogpile is the diary changes in its main page, like this:

Here is the link to access http://www.dogpile.com/

SABI

SABI (sistema de análisis de balances ibéricos), it is a financial database that allows to: search companies or group of companies by different criteria, view and print reports, export data to the most popular formats, make advanced analyses, statistical or comparative, about companies or group of companies following customizable criteria, get graphs on balance sheets, other financial information, prepare presentations. 

Therefore these databases might be useful for different purposes; financial information like follow the financial evolution of a company, marketing information such as the strategic planning of a competitor and be a tool for students. 

The data available is from more than 1 million Spanish companies with information on financing, auditors, stock data, shareholders or legal form. Time covered: from 1990. Update: daily, Provider: Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing, The information comes from the Mercantile Register, BORME, newspapers and other official sources.

Here is the link to access http://sabi.bvdep.com.strauss.uc3m.es:8080/version-201358/cgi/template.dll?product=27&user=ipaddress

Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia. It has 26 million articles in 286 languages, the articles are written collaboratively by volunteers of all the countries. Most the articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. 

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The name is a combination of a word from Hawai wiki that means quick and encyclopedia. Wikipedia idea was to join the  style of encyclopedia and the presence of a large body of popular knowledge. 

The open nature of Wikipedia gives huge problems; the amount of vandalism, the quality of writing and the accuracy of information. Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information. 

Although having this inconvenient, Wikipedia is always the first place that everyone including me use, for its familiarity, simplicity and completeness.

Here is the link to access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Nestoria

Nestoria is a vertical search engine for real estate. In terms of users, Nestoria is the 5th largest property web site in the UK and the 9th in Spain. 

Nestoria aggregates real estate listings from property portals and provides location-based search to Internet users. Results can be sorted by relevance, freshness, distance and type of property. 

Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle, two former Yahoo! executives, founded Lokku Limited in April 2006, based in  London. It is equity backed by private investors from United Kingdom and Spain. The first website brand Nestoria UK launched in June 2006, in Spain May 2007. 

Nestoria is a case study of Google Maps API use and of the Yahoo! User Interface library. As a web application hybrid, Nestoria geo-locates properties on maps and combines them with Point of Interest of transport, schools, hospitals and other local information relevant to homes seekers. 

It includes widgets and a Facebook application. The company operates blogs in all the languages it operates, and regularly interviews thought-leaders from the realm of internet technology and new media businesses.

Here is the link to access http://www.nestoria.es/

Apple Open Directory

Apple Open Directory is the a directory service which stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources and which allows network administrators to manage users access to the resources. 

Open Directory began with Mac OS X Server 10.2. In this initial form, Open Directory consisted of a network-visible NetInfo directory domain and a corresponding Authentication Manager service for storing passwords outside of the directory. Version 10.2 also included support for Kerberos. Mac OS X versions 10.1 and 10.0 stored user password information within the directory domain using crypt password authentication authorities, but version 10.2 paved the way for the current Shadow Hash and Password Server mechanisms. 

In a more general sense, Open Directory can describe the plugins model used by Directory Utility and the directory services framework in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. This could be thought of as analogous to the Name Service Switch systems of some other Unix-like operating systems.

Here is the link to access https://ssl.apple.com/support/macosxleopardserver/opendirectory/

Intute

The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) now called Intute is a JISC-funded service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community. The RDN has series of Internet resource catalogues containing high quality Internet sites, selected and described by specialists from within UK academia and affiliated organisations. Now this site is not working but it will be running this summer.

Originally funded by higher education, since Spring 2000, the JISC has been supported by both the further education and HE funding councils in the UK. In response to this change in remit, the RDN has been working closely with the FE community to develop its services to ensure their relevance to this new audience. 

RDN aims to significantly develop the content of RDN hub Internet Resource Catalogues (IRCs) for FE users. This will be achieved by increasing the number of resources in hub IRCs relevant to the FE community by collecting records enhanced with FE level and subject information from two major institutional resources. In addition, selected existing RDN resources will be mapped to FE level and subject information. These mapped resources will then be linked to the curriculum through the production of a number of subject-based showcase teaching packs.

Here is the link to access http://www.intute.ac.uk/

IHS Global Insight

IHS Global Insight is an online database part of Global Insight, that offers access to economic and financial information on countries, regions and industries, using a unique combination of expertise, macroeconomic models, data and software within a common analytical framework to support planning and decision-making. 

The data is from hundreds of sources, among them OECD, IMF, United Nations, Eurostat, Goldman Sachs, Investor Business Daily or The Wall Street Journal and it covers: national accounts; balance of payments; external debt; exchange rates, prices, interest rate, money supply; population, employment, production and productivity; basic products and futures; derivatives; monetary markets; fixed income; stock market indices; public debt, etc. 

It is easy to understand how IHS works; it has basic and advanced search, that allows to narrow results to series that match certain criteria, a categorical search, with geography, concept and source criteria. It is possible to customize options, as add, remove and sort the columns. With global preferences is available to see and export formats and Date Range. And the last quality is that is possible to make graphs and export them. 

This is a very good site to get statistical information about markets and companies but it only works properly with Internet Explorer.

Here is the link to access http://myinsight.ihsglobalinsight.com.strauss.uc3m.es:8080/servlet/cats?pageContent=home&serviceID=10925