Read all about it….the Easter Sunday Edition of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available for your review. Highlights:
The latest on Topix.net
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The folks over at news page Topix.net want to update you on their site and other search news, so they have created the Topix.net Weblog. Looks like some good stuff.
Yahoo doing just fine, thank you
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Ditching Google as its search engine hasn’t appeared to cost Yahoo! any searchers. I guess that leads me to ask: did anyone even notice the change?
Your secret CRS search engine
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
The Congressional Research Service issues over 3,000 briefs, reports, short issue papers, and longer position papers each year. Unfortunately, it does not make these documents available to the public. That hasn’t stopped congressmen and government agencies from passing them around, and about 1,000 are currently available on the web. Here’s a handy CRS search page…
Blawg of the day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Greg Skidmore, a law student at Harvard, is publishing the Sports Law Blog. covering all things legal relating to the sports world.
PDA stuff for lawyers
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Technology
Do you have a PDA that is not living up to its potential? Thinking about buying a PDA, but not sure how it can help out your law practice? The folks at New York Law School want to help, and they have created Juris PDA to do just that. Lots of helpful hints on purchasing…
New search limiter from Google
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Google is now offering a new number range limiter, so you can specify results that contain numbers within a certain range. For example, if you want to check out DVD players in the $250-$350 range, you would type dvd player $250..$350. That’s the idea, anyway. I ran that search and received results both above…
It’s about time
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
This story is a bit old, but welcome news nonetheless: Google has finally updated its web directory, which has long been out of date.
Topix overtakes Google News?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
In the number of sources crawled, anyway. Topix.net, the terrific news service that debuted a few weeks ago, now features news from over 6,000 sources. (Thanks to Gary Price for the heads up)
Alert yourself via Yahoo!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Useful Web Sites
Yet another way to make research (or other helpful information) come to you. Check out Yahoo! Alerts, which will send you an e-mail based upon your preferences. Sign up to receive alerts with news, weather, stock quotes, best fares, missing children, and horoscopes.