Here's a real estate-oriented guide to tools you can use to search the Net. It is like a giant outline of the kind that your English teacher inflicted on you eons ago. You can begin with the business and economy category, for example, and find a real estate subcategory. What's more, you can use Yahoo to help keep up with daily real estate news . Keep in mind that the articles, or at least most, are from corporations and other businesses rather than from disinterested news organizations.
Searchers have one major negative.
They can overwhelm you with choices. But they're great for locating information on specific individuals or companies. For example, if you're thinking of dealing with a national mortgage firm, you can see if it has a Web site. And through AltaVista and some of the others, you may even be able to track down what people have said about the company on Usenet. That's the BBSlike area of the Internet where outspoken people exchange messages.