Top 18 Web Categories
To give you a sense of what’s available on the Web, we’ve put together a list  of categories where, in general, you’ll be far better off searching an web  resource than a general-purpose search engine. Our purpose here is to simply  provide a quick overview of each category, noting one or two good web resources  for each. Public Company Filings.  The U.S. Securities and Exchange   Commission (SEC) and regulators of equity markets in many other countries   require publicly traded companies to file certain documents on a regular   schedule or whenever an event may have a material effect on the company.   These documents are available in a number of locations, including company   Web sites. Telephone Numbers.  Just as telephone white pages serve as the   quickest and most authoritative offline resource for locating telephone   numbers, a number of web services exist solely to find telephone numbers. Customized Maps and Driving Directions.  Mapblast and Mapquest are   designed specifically...