On improving research, use search engines and Wikipedia to lead you to better sources. Try other search engines like GeniusFind and Beaucoup to categorize topic-specific databases. Blogs are filled with experts in Web topics. To search blogs QuackTrack is a large browsable blog index, listing more than 11,000 blogs. Technorati aggregates user-generated content like blogs but it does have ads as well so you have to tune them out. Anther website that helps locate blogs is Blogdigger. For example, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, which is a forum for business innovation conversations, can assist a search as well. BizSeer is a free online database of academic business literature that reveals the impressive amount of data that "B" schools produce. Last but not least, a few more sites can be mentioned. Zuula is a search tool that lets users send the same query to a number of well-known and not-so-well-known search engines. A resource for locating relevant blogs: http://www.blogcatalog.com. And finally, you can search social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us.
