50 Essential Search Engines for Serious Investors

If you're making a career out of investing, you already know that information can truly be worth its weight in gold. With the right search engines and tools, you can find just about anything you need to know. Put these search engines to work, and you'll get the information you need to make smart investment decisions.

General

Search for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other investments on these engines.

1. Yahoo! Finance: See the latest in finance from Yahoo!'s search.
2. InvestorGuide: Research stocks and more on this search engine.
3. Trade and Investment Search Page: Search for financial information using the UN's ESCAP search engine.
4. DailyFinance: Search tickers, companies, or funds on DailyFinance.
5. Investopedia: You can search for investment information with Investopedia.
6. Google Finance: You can read finance news, search for stocks, and more on Google Finance.
7. Monsterhols: Monsterhols is your personal finance search engine.
8. Boardmark: Boardmark is a financial search engine and community.
9. ActiveQuote: Fidelity offers information on stocks, mutual funds, indexes and annuities on this search engine.
10. Investment Finder: Investment Finder is a Google-powered investment search engine to find articles on stocks, bonds, real estate, and more.
11. Financial Blog Search: Search over 100 leading financial blogs here.
12. Good Money: Search for social, ethical, and environmental investing through Good Money.
13. Wiki Invest: Wiki Invest offers a simplified way to search about investment.
14. FinanceNook: FinanceNook makes it easy to find a search finance articles.
15. Brint: Search for business, finance, and risk management on Brint.
16. SeekFin: SeekFin will help you find finance information faster.
17. CorporateInformation: Check out CorporateInformation for corporate profiles on 31,000 global companies.
18. Google Domestic Trends: Get insight using Google's financial trends tracker.
19. UKZW: UKZW is a finance meta search engine.
20. Hoovers: Search for companies, people, and industries on Hoover's.
21. Finance Link Central: Finance Link Central is a personal finance search engine.
22. TradeWiser: You can research stock brokers on TradeWiser.

Stocks

You'll find valuable insight for stocks with the help of these search engines.

23. Create Your Own Stock Search: You can create a customized stock search using this tool.
24. Fool: Check out stock research on Fool.com.
25. Yahoo! Finance Symbol Lookup: Learn about stock symbols with Yahoo's Symbol Lookup.
26. DailyStocks: Search for snapshots, detailed quotes, and more on DailyStocks.
27. Option Find: Screen stock options, call quotes, and hedges on Option Find.
28. ScanTheMarket: ScanTheMarket offers stock market scanning, screening, and alerts.
29. Google Finance Stock Screener: You can find top stocks with Google's stock screener.
30. Tickerpedia: Tickerpedia searches through stock tickers and company names.
31. TradingDay: Find after hours trading and day trading on TradingDay.
32. Financial BoardCentral: Enter stock symbols to find out what's being said on stock message boards.
33. Insider Info: Insider Info searches for finance, investing, options, stocks, and more.
34. Stock Power Searches: Find stocks that meet your criteria with the help of this search.
35. Dividend: Here you'll find an advanced dividend stock search with this screener.

Mutual Funds

Find the right mutual funds through these search tools.

36. Morningstar: Find funds with the help of Morningstar's fund screener.
37. Mutual Fund Power Searches: You'll look up funds using a few basic measures with MSN's mutual fund search.
38. Lipper Leaders: Look up and screen funds with Lipper Leaders.
39. US News & World Report Best Funds: Check out mutual funds, find scores, performance, and more from the US News & World Report.
40. Mutual Fund Screener: Search for funds with the help of this mutual fund screener from Yahoo! Finance.
41. SEC Mutual Fund Search: Search for mutual funds on the SEC's website.
42. Kiplinger's Fund Finder: Check out this search engine to find information on mutual funds.
43. Mutual Fund Education Alliance Fund Selector: Select your funds with the help of the Mutual Fund Education Alliance.
44. Company and Fund Index: Find company profiles and more using Yahoo! Finance.

Real Estate

Use these search engines to get the scoop on real estate investment property.

45. Investor Loft: Investor Loft offers a great way to search for real estate investment property.
46. Wall Street Journal Real Estate: Find a property search, distinctive properties, and more on the Wall Street Journal.
47. Trulia: Get an in-depth look at real estate investments using Trulia.
48. Realtor: Check out Realtor to find listings for homes, rentals, and more.
49. LoopNet: LoopNet is the #1 search engine for commercial real estate.
50. Zillow: Zillow will give you the edge you need in real estate investing.