Greg Notess has noticed that two special search syntaxes featured by Google, intitle and inurl, have not been working properly for some time. Apparently, you get a large number of results that don’t include all your specified search terms.
Maintaining the balance
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Miscellaneous
Law.com features a nice article about the continuing evolution of law libraries, and the need to balance electronic legal resources with more traditional print versions. Both, I think, are necessary.
Archiving on a cache basis
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Sometimes when you’re searching, the site you’re looking for just isn’t available — either it’s down for repairs, Internet traffic is particularly heavy, or the site has ceased operations altogether. That’s where the Google cache comes in handy. You can view the most recent version of the page in a “snapshot” format that has been…
Blawg of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Pennsylvania attorney Janell Greiner, author of the previously-mentioned BenefitsBlog, has launched another weblog, Erisablog. Janell, where do you find the time to run two weblogs??
You can’t download MP3s P2P from a DVR
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Technology
The BBC thinks that all the high-tech babble the technology companies use is confusing to many people. Regular readers of this site should pass this jargon quiz with flying colors.
Blawgs of the Day
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Some brand new law-related weblogs to sink your browser into this morning. First up is Charterschoolaw.com, a blog devoted to the specialized topic of charter school law. And EDC Legal Advantage showed up in my site’s referrer logs a few days ago, but I wanted to wait until there were some posts to comment…
Paying $$ for Old News
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
Finding current news online is easier than ever nowadays; with sites like Google News, NewsNow, and RocketInfo, you can find literally hundreds of articles on any news story that’s currently “hot.”
When the news turns old, however, it becomes harder to find. That’s because, after a period of time, most news sources…
Viva Vivisimo!
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Today’s SearchDay has a nice review of my favorite metasearch tool, Vivisimo. One of the great features of Vivisimo that I don’t mention often is the advanced search page, which allows you to select specific search engines or sites for your query. That way, you can focus your search on only a few sites,…
Free = Music to a researcher’s ears
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Internet Search
Given your druthers, you’d rather conduct your Internet research for free, right? I thought so. Unfortunately, the trend is in the opposite direction nowadays, with more content providers beginning to charge for their online offerings. A few publishers don’t like this, and a group in the UK has a plan to offer medical research for…
June’s search engine developments
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess reports on new developments with the major search engine in June’s Search Engine Update.