10K Wizard full-text search of SEC documents
No longer free. Allows full-text searching of public documents filed by public companies (companies with shareholders) in the U.S. Search filings by public companies, and even receive E-mail alerts when a certain word or phrase shows up in a filing. Allows easy sorting of results by date or company. Note that the default search is the past 12 months; can be changed to go back several years. Download tables in Excel format.

123Jump
Initial public offerings of stocks are ranked and sorted here. Searchable by industry. Formerly IPO Maven.

@Edgar
Used by professionals worldwide, provides real-time SEC Edgar filings and alerts and time saving real-time keyword/phrase searching and alerts. Download filings in RTF, PDF and Excel. A stripped down version of EDGAR (the SEC trademarked search database), though it is important to note that this site is not affiliated with or approved by the SEC.

Biztravel
Alerts you to airfare deals. Biztravel also has bizMiles, a one-stop tracker for frequent traveler programs. Will send updates on flights and weather to your pager.

Business Information Service
Focus on Newly Independent States, from the U.S. Department of Commerce: biweekly E-mail reports with trade leads, investment leads, conference announcements, and general information. Also industry and country reports.

Defence Systems Daily
Defense and aerospace headlines every day from this British publisher.

EconData
Links to more than 300 sources of local and regional socioeconomic data in the U.S. A valuable resource for finding regional, state and local economic and marketing data on income, employment, housing starts and other economic statisticsstates, cities, counties and regions across the nation. Site includes a User's Guide to Socioeconomic Data for Understanding Your Regional Economy, a 100-page "complete dummies" style guide to finding and using data. Developed by Joe Cortright and Andrew Reamer, and sponsored in part by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Also offers and E-mail alert for registered users.

EDGAR Online
Filings by public companies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Will send E-mail when new forms are filed by companies you specify. Allows searches by executive's name.

Fed mailing lists
Subscribe to Federal Reserve Economic Data series and publications on national and international economic trends.

Federal Consumer Information Center
Visitors can read, print out or download the text of more than 200 federal publications on topics such as cars, money, children, education, home, travel, small business, food and health. The site features all of the publications listed in the current Consumer Information Catalog and others that are not inlcuded in the catalog, or that were featured in previous editions of the catalog. The site also features a consumer help section, listings of current scams and recalls, links to hundreds of government, corporate, nonprofit and other helpful web sites, and the latest news from federal agencies. The site also has a page where the media can sign up for regular FCIC alerts.

FreeEDGAR
Filings by public companies to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Will send E-mail when new forms are filed by companies you specify.

Internet News Bureau
Online press release service. If you like that sort of thing.

OneTravel
Alerts you to airfare deals from more than 20 airlines. Will send updates on flights and weather to your pager.

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
Detailed information on securities cases. Offers an E-mail alert service. From Stanford University Law School.

Travelocity
This online travel agent's Farewatcher alerts you to airfare deals for up to five destinations. Will send updates on flights and weather to your pager.

U.S. Department of Agriculture alerts
Everything from chickens to cranberries. The Ag Department has 70 E-mail information services, including information on imports, exports, prices, chemicals, milk, and walnuts.