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AT&T WorldNet® Service
There are lists of "Yellow Pages" links and "White Pages" links.

Business Filings Databases
“Almost all of the states make some level of Corporate and Business filings available online.” This site organizes the links by state with annotations describing the scope of each site.

SuperPages.com
Formerly BigBook, now from Verizon, provides "Yellow Pages" of businesses searchable by name and type of business. It also lists nearby businesses.

California Business Search. “Check records online for Corporations, Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies”, from the California Secretary of State.

Corporate Information
Corporate Information is organized by country with the USA first, divided by public and private companies. It has a search engine where you can enter a name.

Global Edge Company Directories / Yellow Pages
From Michigan State University, this is a listing of company links worldwide by country and includes the US.

Whois Company Site Locator
Identify companies through their domain name, ip adddress, NIC handle, or other.

Hoovers Online
Though Hoovers Online is a fee-based site the "Hoover's Company Capsules" link brings brief data for more than 11,000 of the largest public and private companies worldwide including a description of the company, address, officers, sales and employment figures, and links to financial reports, stock quotes, SEC filings, and news searches. Search for name by stock ticker symbol as well as directly for company www sites. This site includes some job listings.

SICCode.com
This site organizes businesses by broad industry name and SIC code and and includes a SIC Code/NAICS Code Cross Reference Database with a search window. Search by SIC, NAICS, or by industry description.

SMARTpages.com
Several Bell's companies; select a state; search for business names or categories.

Switchboard
Switchboard is a directory with 90 million people and 10 million businesses. And it is FREE! And you can register if you want to be in the database (if you are not already). The first and last names are in different fields; so you can limit your searches to the last name only.

The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Register on the Thomas Register site for free to have access to 155,000 US and Canadian companies classified under more than 55,000 product and service headings. There are also more than 3,100 online supplier catalogs.

Company "Internet search strategy" Sites:

Researching Companies Online
This site is described best in author's own words: "This business research tutorial presents a step-by-step process for finding free company and industry information on the World Wide Web."