What are subscription or pay-for-search databases?
An even more important class of information than is available through the web sites Google tracks is available only through subscription to databases, and many of these databases are prohibitively expensive. ReconnaSense subscribes to such powerful and inclusive database aggregators as Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg, Thompson, Factiva, Dow Jones, S&P, CourtLink, ChoicePoint, ProQuest, ImageINS, Investext, Zephyr, and EBSCO, to name a fraction of them. Many businesses and most individuals find it uneconomical to subscribe to these resources, and thus outsource their research and analysis needs to companies that routinely use them.
