Though it seems it is not available yet through online databases, an article “The Many Faces of EDGAR,” by Amelia Kassel, was published in the May/June 2005 issue of ONLINE Magazine, pages 37-40.

EDGAR is the free online government database for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kassel explains that you search the EDGAR database to find financial, marketing, management, and legal informaton about a company or industry. She says that sometime information is proprietary, but “…there are often bits and pieces with clues about a company that are important for searchers working in the fields of market research and competitive intelligence.” She compares the government search engine with fee-based value-added EDGARs, such as 10k Wizard, LIVEDGAR, and EDGAR Online.