The latest Google Friends newsletter features an interview with Krishna Barat of Google News. Check out the rest of this month’s issue, too.
Down with Long URLs!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search, Web and Online Culture
How often do you get an e-mail from a friend that contains a URL, and the address takes up more than one line? It’s a pain to get that cut and pasted into your web browser, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. That’s why it’s helpful to have a “URL-shortening” service on hand — these…
Yahoo’s People Finder
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites
No, I’m not talking about Yahoo! People Search — today’s SearchDay features the advanced public records search offered by Yahoo! (which is on the same page as the simple search). Actually, the search is powered by USSearch.com, a public records search company.
The services provided by USSearch sound pretty good, but also pretty pricey.…
Google’s Not God?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
In yet another in a recent string of “let’s not get too carried away with Google” articles, Slate notes, in Digging for Googleholes, that “we’re wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. It’s closer to a collectively authored op-ed page—filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion—than an…
In case you missed it…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Yahoo! will purchase Overture for an estimated $1.6 billion. If you’ll recall, previously this year Overture purchased AltaVista andAllTheWeb.
This reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch where one fish is swallowed by a bigger fish, only to be swallowed by an even bigger fish. The number of fish is getting
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
And the blawgs just keep on a’comin’ (thanks to Denise, Bill, and Sabrina):
- Evan publishes Freelaw.au, a blog Down Under, focusing on “freedom through technology law.”
- While studying for the Wisconsin Bar Exam, a former Texas lawyer (?) is jotting down her Misplaced Thoughts.
- The German American Law Journal is
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More blawgs of the day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Picking up where we left off yesterday:
- A House on a Hill follows the adventures of “a sassy lawyer in Philippine Suburbia.” (You certainly won’t find a lawyer blog in the U.S. with a post on how to battle dengue fever!)
- Bill, a newly minted lawyer and judicial clerk, presents Stickbugblog.
- Minh starts law
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Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Just when I think I get caught up on all the new law-related weblogs, Denise comes along to keep me on my toes. Among the newest:
- Although I originally reported on Bart’s blog back on May 13, The Limit of Its Logic has become a Ninth Circuit Blog. We now have blogs for
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Hot off the Presses
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Mighell Marker
This week’s issue of the Internet Legal Research Weekly is ready for your reading pleasure. Highlights:
Read weblogs like a demon
By Tom Mighell on
Dennis and I have both (unknown to each other) been testing out a new news aggregator, FeedDemon. It’s still in beta, and I have noticed it has a fair number of bugs, but in general I share Dennis’s satisfaction with the product. I know it’s a heck of a lot faster thanNewzcrawler.…