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Law.com Unveils Legal Search Tool
Law.com today launched a new search tool that allows more focused searching of legal sites than would a general search site such as Google, with the goal of delivering more relevant results. Called...
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Pretrieve: Free No More
I wrote in March 2005 about the public-records search engine Pretrieve. A major appeal of the site was that it was free. Go to Pretrieve today and the front page still describes the service as free —...
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The Better People Search Tool
Over the last several weeks, I’ve received several e-mails informing me that someone I know has requested my trust on Spock. Not knowing anything about it, I ignored them until I could find the time to...
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‘Transparent’ Search Tool Sets Jan. 7 Launch
The founder of Wikipedia has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his new search engine, Wikia, according to a report in The Washington Post. The site, which is already operating in beta, hopes to...
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Sophisticated Search for Public Domain Law
I wrote here in November about plans by Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of public-domain federal case law sometime this year and its goal of eventually creating a public-domain...
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Search Company Acquires Casemaker
My Web Watch column this month, Search on Steroids, profiles Collexis, a powerful new search tool making its way into the legal market. The review notes, “The company also is preparing to launch other...
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Searchme: Search Goes Visual
I have been testing the beta version of a new search site that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. Called Searchme, it is by no means the first search engine to...
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Hillary Would be Happy With These Results
A new search engine, Picollator, purports to search for images on the Web that match images you upload. It uses pattern recognition to look for matching visual objects in other images. In this way, it...
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‘Stack’ and Send Your Search Results
I wrote here in March about Searchme, a new search site, still in beta, that delivers results visually, showing pages rather than descriptions of pages. I learned today of two new features added to...
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Legal Search from Lexis
LexisNexis has launched a beta version of its own Web search tool, called Lexis Web. Unlike general search sites such as Google, Lexis Web searches a more limited sphere of legal-oriented Web sites....
View ArticleBlawgSearch adds multimedia searching
BlawgSearch.com, the new search engine for legal blogs I reported about here last month, has moved from “alpha” to “beta,” says its developer Tim Stanley of Justia.com, with the addition of RSS feeds...
View ArticleGoogle adds patent searching
Google Patent Search is a new Google feature that searches the full text of more than 7 million U.S. patents. It covers the entire collection of USPTO patents, from the 1790s through the middle of...
View ArticleUse this desktop search tool in e-discovery
Electronic discovery. This was the use that kept coming to my mind as I tested dtSearch, an immensely fast and powerful desktop and enterprise search tool. Its marketing tagline is, “Instantly search...
View ArticleWikipedia, one better
Fans of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia will want to check out Wikiseek, a new tool that describes itself as a better way to search Wikipedia. Developed by a company named Searchme, it uses...
View ArticleSearch Google – By Phone
Google has for some time allowed you submit searches from your mobile phone via text messages, but now you can search Google Local from any phone via Google Voice Local Search. Just dial 1-800-GOOG-411...
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