4Chan
Background Checks
- Beenverified: Background Checks
- Clear: Background Check Service
- Data-Trac Online Investigative Network
- Delvepoint: Skip Tracing Tool
- Goodhire: Employment Screening And History Check Company
- Hireright Express: Employment Verification
- Intelius: Background Check
- Irbsearch: Searches For People, Assets, Businesses, Courts, Licenses, Phones
- National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)
- Spokeo People Search
- TLOxp for Licensed Investigators
- Tracers: Data provider
- TransUnion | TLOxp
Court Records
Craigslist Search
- All of Craigslist
- Classifieds Search
- Search all Craigslist or Backpage Cities at same time
- Search All Junk
Credit Card
Credit histroy
Criminal Information
Document Search
- Authorstream
- Cryptome Custom (Searches Leaked Docs)
- DocJax
- DocStoc (Personal Documents)
- Find-pdf-doc
- FindThatFile
- Free Full PDF
- Hashdoc
- Offshore Leak Database
- Online OCR (Extract Text from Images)
- Pastebin Alerts (Email Alerts)
- PasteLert
- PDF Search Engine
- PDFGeni (PDF Document Search)
- PDFgive
- PDFSB
- PDFSR
- PPTHunter
- RECAP
- Scribd
- Scribd (Personal Documents)
- SlideSearchEngine
- SlideShare
- Slideworld
- soPDF.com
- TooDoc (Locate Personal Documents)
Employee Theft Investigations
- 40 Tips For Conducting Effective Investigation Interviews
- Conducting Effective Investigation Interviews
- Investigative Forms
- PEACE Model of Investigation Interviews
- Top 20 Questions to Ask in Investigation Interviews
- Wicklander-Zulawski
- AFS: Advanced Search For Facebook App
- Facebook Directory Users by Name)
- Facebook Email ID (Convert email to FB account)
- Facebook Graph (Displays Profile Photo)
- Facebook Graph (Identifies Account Info)
- Facebook Photo Tracker (Search)
- Facebook Recover Lookup (ID Profile)
- Facebook search
- Facebook Search Tools
- Facebook Sketch (Summarizes Available Info)
- Facebook Wall Search (Must be logged in)
- Find Account By Phone Number
- Open Book (Wall Search without login)
- peoplefindThor
- SocialSearch (Facebook Archive)
Fact Checking Websites
- Hoaxy: Open Source Search Tool
- Politifact: Focused On Fact-checking Journalism
- Scicheck: Focuses On False And Misleading Scientific Claims
- Verification Junkie: Fact Check The Validity Of Eyewitness Reports
Flickr
GEAR
- Alfred Home Security Camera (app)
- Audio Recorder
- Evernote (app)
- Hidden Camera Pen Bundle 1080p HD Spy Pen
- Hoverwatch: Free mobile tracker
- mSpy: Cell Phone Tracking Software
- SVR – Secret Video Recorder (App)
- VLC media player
- Waze – GPS, Maps, Traffic Alerts & Live Navigation
- Wickr: Send Self-Destructing Communications
Government Records
- Asset Locator
- Birthday Database
- County Court Records
- Legacy
- Pacer: US Court records
- RECAP
- SSN Validator
- State Business Records
Hacking and Threat Assessment
- Norse: Dedicated Threat Intelligence Network
- Virustotal: Online Tool To Scan A File Or URL For Malware
HAM RADIO
K-Link and NEKSUNHistorical
- Bing Cache (Cached Views)
- Change Detection (Notification of Site Changes)
- Follow That Page (Notification of Site Changes)
- Google Cache (Cached Views)
- Recover My Website (Historic Download)
- ReoCities (Deleted GeoCities Web Archive)
- VisualPing (Advanced Site Monitoring)
- Wayback Machine (Previous Versions of Page)
Inmate Searches
Investigator Tools
- Accident Investigation Forum: Yahoo Group
- Background Investigation Forum: Yahoo Group
- Bail Bond Recovery Forum: Yahoo Group
- Bodyguard And Executive Protection Forum: Yahoo Group
- Burner: Second phone number app
- Buscador Investigative Operating System
- Case Management Software
- CIA app: Look up contact information on unknown numbers
- Countermeasures Forum: Yahoo Group
- CourthouseDirect.com
- Domestic Investigation Forum: Yahoo Group
- Fake name generator
- Freedom of Information Act Requests
- GEO IP Tool
- How to Turn Your Smartphone Into the Ultimate Spy Tool
- Hunchly
- Identify Credit Card
- Insurance Claims Investigation Forum: Yahoo Group
- Internet Archive
- Investigative Books And Manuals List: Yahoo Group
- Investigative Equipment List: Yahoo Group
- Jobs Forum
- Legal Investigation Forum: Yahoo Group
- LexisNexis: Nationwide Search For Accident Reports
- Maltego from Paterva:
- NAIS Members Forum
- Netbootcamp
- Nuix: Cadillac of digital intelligence tools
- OSINT Framework
- OSINT Links /creepyosint
- PI Computer Forum: Yahoo Group
- PI Macuser Forum: Yahoo Group
- PI Marketing Forum: Yahoo Group
- Pi Net Forum: Yahoo Group
- picases: Yahoo Group
- Piclassified: Yahoo Group
- PIHOTLINKS: Yahoo Group
- PInow: Yahoo Group
- Private Investigators Discussion Forum
- Skip Smasher
- The Process Server's Forum: Yahoo Group
- The Spy Exchange: Retail Gear
- The Surveillance Forum: Yahoo Group
- Tracing Missing Persons And Skip Tracer: Yahoo Group
- Wholesale Covert Cameras Save$$$
Investigator Training
- 3 Interrogation Tricks for Private Investigators, Loss Prevention and Cops
- Diligentia Group Blog
- eInvestigator
- Foot Surveillance
- Fraud Magazine
- Google Dorks: An Easy Way of Hacking
- International Counterintelligence Services, Inc.
- Investigators Ultimate Guide
- IRBsearch | Blog
- Johnston Blakley
- Krebs on Security
- OSINT WebBreacher's Blog
- P.I. Advice HQ
- PI Magazine
- PIbuzz
- Private Eye Confidential
- Private Investigator Advice
- Private Investigator's Life
- Pursuit Magazine
- Spies Online
- SSGLLCorg
- Surveillance vehicle
- The Background Investigator
- The Candidate Generator
- The Confidential Resource
- Title Search Blog
- Trustify Blog
- UK PI
- Verdict Resources, Inc. Blog
Jail Bookings
- Case.net Missouri courts
- Clay County Mo. Jail Bookings
- Jackson County Inmate online search
- Jackson County Inmate search
- Johnson County Jail Bookings
- Johnson County Jail Inmate search
- Platte County Jail Tracker
- WYANDOTTE COUNTY DETENTION CENTER
Meta Search
- All-in-One
- AllTheInternet
- Dogpile
- Etools
- Excite
- FaganFinder
- Glearch
- Goofram
- iZito
- Metabear
- Myallsearch
- Nextaris
- Qrobe
- Qwant
- Sputtr
- Trovando
- WebCrawler
- WiinkZ
- Zapmeta
Military Status
Multi-Tools
Online Maps
- Bing Maps (Maps – Satellite Bird’s Eye View)
- Bing Maps Jotpix (Mapped YouTube Uploads)
- Bing Maps Twitter (Mapped Tweets)
- Dual Maps (Dual View)
- Google Maps (Maps-Satellite/Street View/Images/Videos)
- Google Street View (Direct Address Input from Street View)
- GPSVisualizer (Translate Address to GPS)
- Instant Street View (High Res Option)
- Maps Of All (Various Satellite Views)
- Nokia Maps (Satellite View)
- Panoramio (Mapped Photos)
Organized Retail Crime
OSINT Image Search
- Current Location: View Photos Within A Certain Radius Of Your Location
- Tineye: A Reverse Image Search
- Wolfman Image Identification Project
OSINT LINKS
- Free Investigative Tools
- Google Dorks: An Easy Way of Hacking
- IntelTechniques OSINT
- Investigative Database
- Netbootcamp OSINT / Internet Investigation
- OpenSource Intelligence Tools and Resources Handbook
- OSINT Framework
- Osint Link
- OSINT Links 300m.com
- OSINT Links raidforums.com
- OSINT resources from inteltechniques.com
- OSIRT Research Tool
- Public Data Resources
- The Canaidate Generator: Youtube
- The Candidate Generator
- Tools to Help with Social Media Investigation
Pastebin Search
People Search Engines
- 192 (UK)
- 411 (US)
- Alumni.net
- Ancestry
- Arrests (US)
- Arrests, Inmate & Court Search
- Biz Yellow Pages, USA Business & People Directory
- Burial Records (UK)
- Canada411
- Catfish
- Cedar
- Charlie App
- Classmates
- Classmates (Alumni Search)
- Court Listener (US)
- CrunchBase
- CVGadget (People Search)
- DOB Search
- Dossiya (Combined Search)
- facesearch
- Family Search
- Family Tree Now
- Family Watchdog (US)
- Federal Bureau of Prisons – Inmate Locator (US)
- Felon Spy (US)
- Fold3 (US Military Records)
- Forebears
- Gaddr
- Genealogy Bank
- Genealogy Links
- Grave Finder (US)
- Grave Finder People (UK) [192 (UK)
- Hey Press (Search for Journalists
- HowManyOfMe (Census by Name)
- Infobel
- InfoSpace (People Search)
- Infospace White Pages
- Inmate Locator (US)
- Inmate Search (US)
- Interment
- International White and Yellow Pages
- ISeach (People Search)
- Itools
- Jailbase (US)
- KGB People (People Search)
- Kompass
- LittleSis
- Locate Family
- LookUpUK
- Lullar
- Lullar (Email/Moniker Search)
- Mamma (Intelius Port for Personal Info)
- MarketVisual
- Mocavo (Yearbooks)
- Mugshots
- My Life People Search
- Neighbor Report
- PeekYou (People Search)
- PeepDB (Person Search)
- PeopleSearch.net
- Pipl (Paid Person Search)
- Recruitem
- Recruitin
- Reunion
- Rootsweb
- SearchBug
- Skip Ease
- snitch.name
- SnoopStation
- socialface.com.ua
- Spokeo
- Starving Farmer
- Switchboard
- That'sThem
- USSearch
- Voter Records
- Waatp (People Search)
- Webmii (People Search)
- WhatsPublic (Person Search)
- White Pages
- WhitePages Plus (pipl)
- Whozat (People Search)
- Wink
- Yasni
- Yasni (People Meta-Search)
- YoName (People Search)
- Zaba Search (Addresses and Numbers)
- Zabasearch
- Zoominfo
- Zoominfo (Company Searches)
- Zopeo (People Search)
Phone Searches
- Anywho: White pages
- Dexpages: Yellow Pages/ White Pages online
- Phonesbook: Regional phone book
- WhitePages reverse phone lookup
Photos
- Bing Images (Images)
- Camera Summary (Alternative EXIF Viewer)
- Camera Trace (Search by Serial)
- DataPack (Banned Hastag Search)
- DataPack (Multiple Hashtag Search)
- Dropshots (Photo Sharing)
- ExifViewer (Alternative EXIF Viewer)
- FindExif (Alternative EXIF Viewer)
- Flick ID Translator (Flickr Name > ID)
- Flickr (Photo Sharing)
- Flickr Map (Search Photos by Location)
- Flickr Searchr (Search Photos by GPS)
- Followgram (Instagram Search by User)
- Fotki (Photo Sharing)
- Foto Forensics (Identifies Edited Images)
- Google Images (Images)
- Google Similar Images (Reverse Image Search)
- Image Manipulation (Identifies Edited Images)
- Instagram API (Instagram Data)
- Instagram Search (Search Instagram)
- Instamap (Instagram Map)
- JAlbum (Photo Sharing)
- Jeffrey’s EXIF Viewer (Preferred EXIF Viewer)
- Karma Decay (Reddit Reverse Image)
- NerdyData (Reverse Image Search)
- Photobucket (Photo Sharing)
- Photobucket (Photo Sharing)
- Picasa (Photo Sharing)
- PicSearch (Images)
- Pictriev (Reverse Image Search)
- Pipes (Flickr Geo by User)
- Pipes (Flickr Latest by User)
- Shutterfly (Photo Sharing)
- SmugMug (Photo Sharing)
- Statigram (Instagram Search)
- StolenCameraFinder (Search by Serial)
- TinEye (Reverse Image Search)
- Webstigram (Instagram Search)
- Worldcam (Instagram Search by Location)
- Yahoo Images (Images)
- Yandex (Reversre Image Search)
PI Licensing
- Anchorage PI License
- Arizona PI License
- Arkansas PI License
- California PI License
- Colorado PI License
- Connecticut PI License
- Delaware PI License
- Florida PI License
- Georgia PI License
- Hawaii PI License
- Idaho PI License
- Illinois PI License
- Indiana PI License
- Iowa PI License
- Kansas PI License
- Kentucky PI License
- Louisiana PI License
- Maine PI License
- Maryland PI License
- Massachusetts PI License
- Michigan PI License
- Minnesota PI License
- Mississippi PI License
- Missouri PI License
- Montana PI License
- Nebraska PI License
- Nevada PI License
- New Hampshire PI License
- New Jersey PI License
- New Mexico PI License
- New York PI License
- North Carolina PI License
- North Dakota PI License
- Ohio PI License
- Oklahoma PI License
- Oregon PI License
- Pennsylvania PI License
- Private Investigator Liability Insurance
- Rhode Island PI License
- South Carolina PI License
- South Dakota PI License
- Tennessee PI License
- Texas PI License
- Utah PI License
- Vermont PI License
- Virginia PI License
- Washington PI License
- West Virginia PI License
- Wisconsin PI License
- Wyoming PI License
POLICE BLOTTER
Public Records
- Emporis: Search Design / Construction Images
- Google advanced search
- Google Correlate: Identify Search Patterns
- Google Image search
- Google My drive
- Has Been Compromised In A Data Breach?
- Johnson County warrant search
- Kansas Appellate Courts
- Kansas Criminal histroy
- Kansas Motor Vehicle Records
- Kansas professional license search
- Kansas Warrant search
- Melissa Data Property Viewer: View Property Information
- Million Short: Searching For Information Online
- Missouri license search
- Online databases available to investigators
- Pacer US Courts
- Peekyou: People search
- Public Records Search
- Scribd
- Search any person, business or location in the U.S.
- Search Party For Federal Litigation
- Shodan: Search Engine And Network Security Tool
- Talkwalkeralerts; Alternative To Google Alerts
- Tracers: Data provider
Real estate records
- Imgur
- Metareddit
- Reddit Archive
- Reddit Bureau Of Investigation
- Reddit Investigator
- Reddit Metrics
- Redditlist
- Redective
- SnoopSnoo
Registered Sexual offenders
- Kansas registered offender search
- KBI Registered Sexual offenders
- Missouri registered sexual offenders
Search Engines
- 2Lingual Google (Dual Country Search)
- Baidu (Chinese Search Engine)
- Bing
- Bing Translate (Translate Text & Websites)
- BingVsGoogle (Compare Results)
- Carrot2 (Names, Addresses, Email, etc-Categorized)
- Case Sensitve Search
- Case Sensitve Search
- eFind (Names, Addresses, Email, etc)
- Exalead (Names, Addresses, Email, etc)
- GlobalFile (FTP Search Engine)
- Google (Names, Addresses, Email, etc)
- Google Advanced Search (Custom Commands)
- Google Alerts (Search Notifications)
- Google All-In-One (One Stop Google Shop)
- Google Blogsearch (Blog Searcher)
- Google Groups (Newsgroups)
- Google News Archive (Advanced News Search)
- Google Translate (Translate Text & Websites)
- Google WDYL (Scrapbook View)
- http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
- http://www.yandex.com/
- iBoogie (Names, Addresses, Email, etc-Categorized)
- iSEEK (Names, Addresses, Email, etc-Categorized)
- iZito (Names, Addresses, Email, etc-Categorized)
- Napalm FTP (FTP Search Engine)
- NerdyData (Code Search Engine)
- Newspaper Archive (Scanned Newspapers)
- Slikk (Live View Engine)
- Yahoo Advanced (Advanced Bing Options)
- Yahoo Groups (Newsgroups)
- Yippy (Names, Addresses, Email, etc)
- Zuula (Multiple Search Engine Comparison)
Search forums and boards
- Boardreader: Online search tool for forums and boards
- Brand24: Monitor online conversations and comments
- Google Groups
- Omgili: Discussions, news stories and blog posts
Site Operator Searches
Skip Tracing
Social Media
- 5 social media hacks to track down more information when hiring
- Brand24: Monitor online conversations and comments
- Buscador: Virtual Machine for online investigations
- Checkusernames: Check The Availability Of User Names
- Find anyone's email – App
- Google Social search
- How to Find Anyone Online
- Knowem.com: Searching The USPTO Trademark Database
- Namech_k: Search Domain Names, User Names
- Pipl Profile Search
- Social media monitoring
- Social search engine – search social networks
- Social Search Network
- Social searcher
- Sprinklr: Social media marketing, research
- Uvrx: Combination of multiple Google custom search engines
Social Network Traffic
- Cable Gate (Searches Leaked Docs)
- Cable Search (Searches Leaked Docs)
- Cryptome Custom (Searches Leaked Docs)
- DocJax (Locate Personal Documents)
- DocStoc (Personal Documents)
- FindThatFile (Locate Personal Documents)
- FOCA Online (Document Meta Data Viewer)
- Online OCR (Extract Text from Images)
- Pastebin Alerts (Email Alerts)
- PDFGeni (PDF Document Search)
- Scribd (Personal Documents)
- TooDoc (Locate Personal Documents)
Stolen Property
- Ebay: Advanced Search
- Find your stolen property for sale online
- Pawnalert: Search stolen database
- Stolen Lost Found Online
- Stolen Register: Worldwide registry of lost and stolen property
- Stolen-property.com: Stolen property database
- stolen911: Search
- Stolen911: Search Craigslist
- Trace Checker
- Track Stolen Laptops With a MAC or IP Address
- Track The Stolen Laptop
Transportation
- Flight Radar 24: View Live Flight Tracking Information Around The Globe
- Marine Traffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence
- Nationwide Aircraft Registry
- Vincheck: Determine If A Vehicle Is Reported Stolen
Tumblr
- Barkov.net
- Find Face
- Report Tree
- Searchlr
- Social Stats
- Spotlight
- Target Hunter
- Target Log
- Tumblr Search
- VK Community Search
- VK People Search
- VK to RSS Appspot
- Vk5
- VKontakte (Russian Social Media)
- Advanced Twitter Search (Custom Options)
- All My Tweets (Entire Archive)
- AllMyTweets
- BackTweets (Search Links Posted)
- Bioischanged
- Crate
- doesfollow
- EchoSec (Mapped Tweets)
- Fake Follower Check
- Fake Followers (Identifies Fake Accounts)
- Find on Twitter from email address
- First Tweet
- Foller.me
- FollowCheck
- Followermonk (Analyze Associates)
- Followermonk (Analyze Users)
- Followerwonk
- Geochirp
- GeoChirp (Twitter Mapped Data)
- GeoSocial Footprint
- GetTwitterID
- Gigatweeter
- Ground Signal
- HappyGrumpy
- Harvard Map (Mapped Tweets)
- Harvard TweetMap
- Hashtagify
- Hashtags.org
- HootSuite (Live Data STream)
- introduce
- InTweets
- ManageFlitter
- Mention Map Closest Friends
- Mentionmapp
- My Top Tweet
- OMTM (Mapped Tweets)
- OneMillionTweetMap
- Queryfeed
- RiteTag
- Search by hastag
- SexyPeek (ADULT Twitter Photo Search)
- SleepingTime (Twitter Sleep Schedule)
- Status People (Identifies Fake Accounts)
- TagWalk (Twitter Account Data)
- Topsy (Occassional Deteled Posts)
- TweetBeaver
- TweetDeck (Real Time Monitoring)
- TweetPaths (Mapped Tweets by User)
- TweetReach (ID ReTweets)
- Twellow (Twitter Search)
- Twicsy (Live Twitter Photos)
- Twitalyzer (Twitter Account Data)
- TwitCaps (Twitter Photo Search)
- Twitonomy (Twitter Analytics)
- TwitPic (Twitter Photos)
- Twitter advanced search
- Twitter Directory (Users by Name)
- Twitter Location Search (Enter GPS)
- Twitter Name Search (Twitter Name Search)
- Twitterfall (Real Time Search)
User Name & Email Search
- Amazon Search (Review Info)
- Compromised Email (DB of Hacked Emails)
- Email Format (Addresses and Format for Business)
- Email Validator (Bulk Email Validation)
- EmailSherlock (Email Search)
- HackNotifier (DB of Hacked Emails)
- Knowem
- MailTester (Email Validation)
- NameChk (User Name Search)
- PeepMail (Email Identification)
- SnapChat Lookup (UserName to Cell)
- Social Network Search (SN Search Engine)
- Toofr (Business Email Guess)
- UserNameCheck (User Name Search)
- VerifyEmail (Email Validation)
Username Check
Vehicle Registration
- All Vehicle Data
- Auto Bid Master (auction)
- Auto Check
- Autowini (Vin Search International)
- CarFax
- Check That (Vin Search)
- Check That VIN
- copart (auction)
- Free Background Search
- National Insurance Crime Bureau(Vin Search)
- NICB VIN Check
- Records Finder
- Reverse Genie (License Plate Search)
- Reverse Genie License Plate Search
- Search Quarry
- thatsthem (Vin Search)
- Vehicle History (Make/Model & Vin Search)
- Vehicle History (Plate Search)
- Vehicle Histroy
- VIN decoder
- Vin decoderz (Vin Search)
- VIN Place
Video Search
- 360daily; Video search
- Earth Cam: Worlds Public Live Streaming Web Cams And Surveillance Cameras
- Insecam: Hundreds Of Surveillance Cameras
- Youtube
Web Search
- 411: Find Contact Information
- Ancestry.com find by genealogy
- Ask
- Builtwith.com: A Website Profiler
- Carrot2: Search Results Into Topics, And Visuall
- Classmates.com
- Cluuz
- Dogpile
- Exalead
- Find anyone's contact information
- Gigablast
- Google images UK
- Monstercrawler
- Mozbot
- Oscobo
- Peoplefinder: Find people
- Pipl: People search engine
- Qwant
- ReverseGenie.com Search Phone Numbers, Email Addresses, IP Addresses
- Searchboth.net: Google and Yahoo
- Soovle
- Sputtr
- Startpage: Private Search Engine
- Tor: Anonymous Search Tool
- Waybackmachine
- Webcrawler
- Wink
- Yahoo
- Yandex
- Yippy: Searches Multiple Sources
- Zaba: People search engine