Susan Gerhart, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, asks the question, Do Search Engines Suppress Controversy? For more information on this subject, check out her main page. The answer to her question: yes, to some extent search engines do not list controversial sites on search results. The lesson here is to make a
A New Issue of…
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Posted in Legal Technology, Mighell Marker
…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is online and available for your reading pleasure. Highlights:
Marketing on LPT
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Posted in Law Practice Management, Useful Web Sites
The December issue of Law Practice Today is out, and this month the subject is marketing. As always, the articles are terrific; make sure you check out the Department articles on the lower half of the page.
Yellow Pages getting the message?
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Posted in Internet Search
In a follow-up to my earlier post on how online yellow pages just don’t measure up, here’s a story on how SuperPages may have decided that it’s cheaper and more profitable to have local search results available online.
Can you hear me now?
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Posted in Mobile Technology
A division of Boeing has announced it will begin deploying wi-fi access points in airliners beginning next year. This technology may someday allow passengers to surf the Internet or use their own mobile phones on airplane trips.
Stem searching now automatic
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Posted in Search Engines
Google has begun auto-stemming some of its searches. Here’s how it will work. Greg Notess states that this new feature may help relevance in some cases, but there are two potential problems: 1) it will be frustrating for searches looking for precise results; and 2) Google really should give users an option to “turn on”…
One in a Hundred
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Posted in Search Engines
Vivisimo, one of my favorite search tools, has been named one of the the Top 100 ‘companies that matter most in digital content management’ by EContent Magazine. If this site isn’t one of the tools in your search arsenal, you’re really missing out.
Network-Lawyers has got it goin’ on
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
I haven’t mentioned this (and I have no idea why), but the discussion over at Network-Lawyers is terrific. John Debruyn and several others have organized a series of online seminars on legal technology. Right now we are in the middle of a very enlightening discussion on Cyber-Courts and Online Dispute Resolution. The seminars for January…
Tab Hunter? Don’t bother
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Posted in Search Engines
Yesterday’s SearchDay has a terrific article on how the future of search will rely on searching with invisible tabs. Chris makes an interesting observation; that when people go to a search engine (or any website, for that matter), they often don’t see that there are navigation tabs across the top of the page that…
It keeps on going, and going, and going….
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
The Sobig.F was supposed to shut itself down on September 10 — so why is it still hanging around?