The folks who brought you Google’s PageRank technology have been working on something new, called Kaltix, which they hope will increase the user’s ability to personalize his or her search results. It’s still in development, but it definitely sounds promising.
Well, this is a rather extreme response
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Posted in Email
Concerned by the amount of time spent by employees dealing with e-mail, U.K. company Phones4U has banned e-mail in its entirety. Company management believes this will free up an extra three hours each day for the employees.
What’s new with search engines
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Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess published his regular Internet Search Engine Update in the September/October Online Magazine to let us in on what’s up with the major search engines.
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Let’s take a peek at some of the newer law-related blogs to start off the week:
- LawBiz Management is brought to us by marketing coach Ed Poll.
- The appropriately-named Without a Net features the musings of an anonymous 1L making his way through law school. (Via Denise)
- The Institute of Industrial Relations Library at
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Finally…
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Posted in Mighell Marker
The latest issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available online, featuring:
A facelift for InfoSpace
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
Long-time web directory InfoSpace got more than a facelift, actually — the site is completely different. Genie Tyburski discusses the changes over at SearchDay. (By the way, Genie’s right — $39.95 is a bit steep for a public records report. Accurint provides great results, for under ten dollars.
Blawgs of the Day
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
- Serious Law Student is beginning the chronicle of her years at Columbia Law School. (Via Denise)
- Raymond Chandler posts his experiences in law school, life, politics, Missouri politics, and anything else he feels like writing about atAttempted Survival. (Via Blawg.org)
- Sherry Fowler (a/k/a Scheherazade) publishes Civil Procedure. (Via Ernie)
Another acronym to remember
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Posted in Software, Technology
Although Adobe’s PDF is currently the standard for Internet documents, is apparently facing competition from Autodesk’s Design Web Format (DWF), or Macromedia’s Flashpaper. Here’s what those guys at PDF for Lawyers have to say about that.
What happened to search engines in August?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
You can find out from Chris Sherman, who published the Search Engine Milestones for August 2003 a few weeks ago.
Another attack on the way?
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Posted in Security
If you haven’t downloaded the latest patch from Windows Update, what are you waiting for? Experts predict the next Blaster-like worm will emerge in the next few days.