Web Picks - Search Engine/Research

www.google.com
This is our favourite search engine, as Google rank orders its search results by how many times the page is linked by other pages on the web.

www.enterprisetoronto.com
Enterprise Toronto is your one-stop source for small business information, guidance and business registration.

www.britannica.com
The contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica are available online - for free. Search everything from A to Z plus related articles from 76 magazines. To make sure your search is complete, you'll get links for 125,000 sites. It's research unlimited.

www.maplesquare.com
Maple Square Inc. is Canada's Internet Directory. Search business section by 22 categories, from boards of trade to transportation.

expoworld.net
This is an international directory of more than 500 of the websites useful to the events and trade industry. Can be searched geographically and by type of event.

www.netxtract.com/download.html
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circ.micromedia.on.ca
This directory of thousands of Associations in Canada, lets you search by your industry of choice and provides you with links to email and association websites. What better way to research your next client, than by getting in touch with their industry's association?

smallbizxpress.tpl.toronto.on.ca
SmallBizXpress is an information resource portal operated by Toronto Public Library for people looking for all kinds of information to help start, run or expand a small business in Ontario. It is full of really good small business and entrepreneurial information with a Canadian and Ontario focus and it is part of the Virtual Reference Library.

www.sbinformation.about.com
Part of the fabulous About.com network of over 700 guides to various topics, this website acts as a one-stop shopping point for finding quality filtered sites related to many aspects of sales and marketing.

www.netlibrary.com
This website give you access to complete texts of thousands of books and other reference materials…many of which at no charge! Users "check out" an entire book (like in a library), giving them exclusive access for a set period of time, usually about a day. In addition to paging through titles, users may search for authors, titles, key words and concepts. So next time you want to do some pleasure reading or even business research, visit this Internet library.

www.sedar.com
This website hosts a database of information on Canada's public companies and mutual funds.

www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada's website is the source for Canadian statistics on Canadian population trends and consumer expenditures - which can really facilitate businesses in their marketing efforts. For example, find out Canada's projected population five years from now, the percentage of those aged 90 and over currently living in Canada, and the number of lone-parent families in Canada, plus much more.

www.lexis-nexis.com
This online database gives full-text information from more than 650 periodicals and abstracts frommore than 1000 sources.

strategis.ic.gc.ca/cdncc
Industry Canada’s online database, with over 35,000 Canadian companies and 200,000 products and services registered, is an excellent search tool for obtaining information on prospect companies. Whether you’ve got a particular company in mind or an entire industry, this site can help you gather background information. This free directory service provides you with company contact names and numbers, email, web and mailing addresses, as well as the choice of a complete or short company profile. You can even initiate a custom search, whereby only selected company information is displayed. "The site is extremely detailed and up-to-date, so you don’t have to waste time chasing information," says Terry Tavares, sales rep for the CPSA. He has used the site to contact sales managers in various fields, including those in the pharmaceutical technology and communication technology industries.